Sources: Encyclopedia of African American History

Abstract

Documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century. v. 1. Atlantic African, American, and European Backgrounds to Contact, Commerce, and Enslavement -- Acculturation -- African Burial Ground, New York City -- African Diaspora -- Africanisms -- Asiento -- Atlantic Creoles -- Atlantic Islands -- Atlantic Slave Trade -- Bacon's Rebellion -- Barracoons -- Bight of Benin -- Bight of Biafra -- Bosman, Willem -- Bunce Island -- Cape Coast Castle -- Carolinas -- Chesapeake Colonies -- Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah -- de Las Casas, Bartolomé -- Destination, Florida -- Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point -- Dutch New Netherland -- Dutch West India Company -- Elmina -- Encomienda -- Estévan -- Factor -- Freedom Dues -- Futa Jallon -- Ghana -- Gold Coast -- Gorée Island -- Griot -- Gulf of Guinea -- Headright System -- Hispaniola -- Igbo -- Indentured Servitude -- Jamestown, Virginia -- John, Prester -- Johnson, Anthony -- Kingdom of Asante -- Kingdom of Benin -- Kingdom of Dahomey -- Kongo Kingdom -- Las Siete Partidas -- Laurens, Henry -- Loose Pack -- Malaria -- Mali -- Matrilineal Societies -- Mbebma, Nzinga (Afonso I) -- Middle Colonies -- Musa, Mansa -- New England Colonies -- New York Conspiracy of 1741 -- New York Revolt of 1712 -- Newton, John -- Occupational Castes -- Oral Culture -- Patroonship -- Punch, John -- Queen Nzinga (Njinga Mbande) -- Racialized Slavery -- Reconquista -- Rice Cultivation -- Rolfe, John -- Royal African Company -- Sahel -- Seasoning -- Senegambia -- Signares -- Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts -- Songhai -- Stono Rebellion -- Sudanic Empires -- Sugar Plantations -- Sundiata: The Epic of Old Mali -- Task System -- Tight Pack -- Timbuktu -- Tobacco -- Toure, Askia Muhammad -- Trans-Saharan Slave Trade -- Tribute -- Vita, Dona Beatriz Kimpa -- West-Central Africa -- Wheatley, Phillis -- Woolman, John -- Culture, identity, and Community: From slavery to the Present -- Amalgamation -- Anansi the Spider -- Ancestral Spirits -- Anderson, Marian -- Angolan/Kongolese -- Animal Trickster Stories -- Armstrong, Louis -- Bailey, Pearl -- Basie, Count -- Bebop -- Black Atlantic -- Black Churches -- Black English -- Black Folk Culture -- Black Fraternal Societies -- Black Seminoles -- Black Wedding Traditions -- Blackface Minstrelsy -- Blue Notes -- Blues Music -- Bottle Trees -- Brer Rabbit -- Brooks, Gwendolyn -- Brown, James -- Buckra -- Call-and-Response -- Caul -- Charms -- Coltrane, John -- Congo Square, New Orleans -- Conjure -- Coromantee -- Davis, Miles -- Double Consciousness -- Ebo Landing -- Election Day -- Ellington, Duke -- Ethnic Randomization -- Evangelism -- Family Patterns -- Field Hollers -- Fitzgerald, Ella -- Flying African Stories -- Frazier, E. Franklin -- Full Immersion Baptism -- Goofer Dust -- Grave Decorations -- Grave Dirt -- Gullah -- Gumbo -- Herskovits, Melville -- High John the Conqueror Root -- Hoodoo -- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Hush Harbors -- Infanticide -- Jambalaya -- Jas -- Jazz -- John the Slave Tales -- Joplin, Scott -- Juba Dance -- Kongo Cosmogram -- Kwanzaa -- Laveau, Marie -- Locke, Alain -- Mardi Gras -- Miscegenation -- Mulatto -- Names Debate -- Negritude -- Obeah -- Octoroon -- Parker, Charlie -- Pinkster Festival -- Poisonings -- Prince Hall Masonry -- Pryor, Richard -- Quadroon -- Ragtime -- Ring Shout -- Rogers, Joel Augustus -- Root Doctors -- Salt-Water Negroes -- Sambo -- Sanchez, Sonia -- Shakur, Tupac -- Shrine of the Black Madonna -- Signifying -- Slave Culture -- Slave Religion -- Soul Food -- Sweetgrass Baskets -- Syncretism -- Tituba -- Transmigration -- Turner, Lorenzo Dow -- Walker, Margaret -- Wonder, Stevie -- Work Songs -- Wright, Richard.