African founders: how enslaved people expanded American freedom

Abstract

Northern regions, New England -- Puritan purposes, Akan ethics, American values -- Hudson Valley -- Dutch capitalists, Angolan entrepreneurs, American strivers -- Delaware Valley -- Quaker founders, Guinea achievers, American reformers -- Southern regions, Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland -- English masters, West African rebels, American leaders -- Coastal Carolina and Georgia -- Barbadian planters, Gullah-Geechee cultures, American roots -- Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast -- French, Spanish & Anglo rulers; Bamana, Benin & Congo clusters; American Pluralism -- Frontier regions, Western frontiers : free range slaves -- Fulani herders, Texas cowboys, American mustangers -- Maritime frontiers : saltwater slaves -- West African boatmen, Atlantic seamen, American mariners -- Southern frontiers : warrior slaves -- Angolan soldiers, Afro-Seminole warriors, U.S. Seminole-Negro scouts.