Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 is written by Linda M. Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521770653 (ISBN 10) and 9780521770651 (ISBN 13).

This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.