About the Book:Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin’s description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African people met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives through religion, family life, and economic strategies.Table of Contents: Introduction 1 I THE UNSEASONED 1 Naming Africans 13 2 Africans Name Themselves 34 3 The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors 62 II PLANTATION SLAVES 4 Plantations: Case Studies 77 5 “Scientific” Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies 115 6 The Slaves’ Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property 126 7 Family 159 8 Plantation Religion and Resistance 174 III THE ASSIMILATEDS 9 Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805 215 10 Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion 241 11 Epilogue: Africa in America 268 Appendixes 281 Notes 309 Bibliography 385 Index 405