Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction Diasporic Africa: A View from History -- Part I Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery -- 1 In an Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800 -- 2 Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 -- 3 The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries -- Part II Memory and Instantiations of the Divine -- 4 Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era -- 5 Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence -- 6 Finding the Past, Making the Future: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora -- 7 Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in Jamaica: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture -- Part III Reconfiguring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual -- 8 Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century -- 9 Race and the Making of the Nation: Blacks in Modern France -- 10 "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms of government but the Soviet": Black Women Radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left during the 1920s -- 11 "Boundaries of Law and Disorder": The "Grand Design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "Overseas Revolution" in Cuba -- 12 Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid . . .": Diaspora Consciousness and Literary Expression -- 13 Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices -- About the Contributors -- Index.