The African experience in Colonial Virginia : essays on the 1619 arrival and the legacy of slavery / edited by Colita Nichols Fairfax ; foreword by Justin E. Fairfax
Published
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]
The "Middle Passage" -- Race and Constructions of "the Negro" in Colonial Virginia -- The Other Amazing Grace from a Slave Ship -- 1619 -- Twin Events of Summer 1619 in Tidewater Virginia-and the Prospect for Government of, for, and by the American People -- Engendering Slavery in Virginia -- "Wash Me and I Shall Be Whiter Than Snow" -- What Life? Experiences of Enslaved Africans in Virginia -- Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome, the Patriarchal Nuclear Family Structure and African American Male-Female Relationships -- Vestiges of Slavery -- Building a Nation -- Epilogue
Summary
"The State of Virginia recognizes that the 1619 landing of Africans at Point Comfort (present-day Hampton) as a complicated beginning. This collection of new essays reckons with this historical fact, with discussions if the impacts 400 years later. Chapters cover different perspectives about the "20 and odd" who landed, offering insights into how enslavement continues to affect the lives of their descendants. The often overlooked experiences of women in enslavement are discussed.-- Provided by publisher
