Identity Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World

<p>This book applies oral archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons slaves and free blacks examining a Gold Coast entrepot of Akan Ga Guan and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear mutable intersection of contested history and culture.</p><p></p><p>Combining extant evidence with newer interdisciplinary insights to reconsider under-recognized histories and actors <i>Identity Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World</i> explores West African cosmologies regional statecraft and socio-cultural practice and the way they contributed to Atlantic ideas of freedom identity and spirituality. Archival researches of British Dutch and Danish Atlantic thoroughfares bring to light histories of royals priests and others remade as captive laborers Maroons and free blacks. Looking at Akwamu’s overtaking of Great Accra Jamaica’s Maroon Wars the 1712 Rebellion in New York and many other examples this book explores the evolution of identity and spirituality in the diaspora of the Gold Coast and the Atlantic world.</p><p></p><p><i>Identity Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World</i> will be of interest to scholars and students of African studies the African diaspora cultural studies and Atlantic and American history.</p>