Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Vesey's Challenge -- CHAPTER TWO: Time and Space -- CHAPTER THREE: Warriors, Charms, and Loas: Senegambia and the Bight of Benin -- CHAPTER FOUR: Prayin' on duh Bead: Islam in Early America -- CHAPTER FIVE: Societies and Stools: Sierra Leone and the Akan -- CHAPTER SIX: I Seen Folks Disappeah: The Igbo and West Central Africa -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Talking Half African: Middle Passage, Seasoning, and Language -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Tad's Query: Ethnicity and Class in African America -- CHAPTER NINE: Turning Down the Pot: Christianity and the African-Based Community -- CHAPTER TEN: The Least of These -- Appendix: Census Estimates for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.