Source: Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (ID101)
Author: Landers, Jane (ID70)
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1738-04-01 - 1738-04-30
African ethnicities were tricky to decipher
...Other scholars generally agree that ethnic identifications in Africa, as well as in the Americas, were fluid and contingent, and must be used with care. Joseph Miller describes terms like "Kongo as an ethno-linguistic abstraction" and a creation of the Atlantic slave trade... Robin Law makes a similar argument about "Yoruba"... and "Mina." (259).
(Landers: Atlantic Creoles)
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