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By Peter H. Wood

enticing and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the background of slavery and the fight for freedom ahead of the USA turned a country. starting with the colonization of North the United States, Peter wooden records the transformation of slavery from a brutal kind of indentured servitude to a full-blown method of racial domination. Strange New Land makes a speciality of how Africans survived this brutal process--and eventually formed the contours of yankee racial slavery via various potential, including:
- studying English and making it their own
- changing to Christianity and remodeling the religion
- conserving quick to Islam or combining their religious ideals with the religion in their masters
- Recalling abilities and ideology, dances and tales from the previous global, which supplied a key point of their victorious tale of survival
- hearing speak of liberty and freedom, of the rights of guy and embracing it as a primary right--even petitioning colonial directors and insisting on that right.

Against the troubling backdrop of yank slavery, Strange New Land surveys black social and cultural lifestyles, beautifully illustrating how this sort of different staff of individuals from the shorelines of West and primary Africa grew to become a group in North America.

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