English slavery in the seventeenth to the eighteen hundreds was widespread and left many after effects upon those who were forced into the triangle trade. Michael Angelo Gomez’s book Exchanging Our Country Marks the Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South takes an interest in the transatlantic slave trade. He examines the diverse beliefs of the wide range of African populations that were brought to the Unites States of America’s south. The merged ethnic identity of the slave culture of the transatlantic slave trade and the changing in political, social structures, and religion created the concept of race and the African American identity.
Gomez first priority is to show the Africanized Christianity in the
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It is not surprising that at a migration at that size that practices from Africa would be carried over. Chapter three looks at the influence of African culture by analyzing the Bambara and Fon-Ewe-Yorba African cultures in Louisiana and its contrast with the Senegambia Islamic practices in Carolina and Georgia. The analysis carries over into chapter four but instead of indigenous cultures by emphasizing on the social divisions in the African society between the Muslim populations from Senegambia and the non-Muslim slaves from Sierra Leone. Chapter five’s goal is help the reader understand that the slaves understood the loss of rights that went into slavery, Gomez uses the Akan slaves that were brought the ideas of understanding “the role and significance of land to the new world.”(113) for Gomez the Akan understood the connection between land and political, cultural, and social freedom, connection both tangible and spiritual. Though Africans understood the forcible change in culture that did not mean a destruction of beliefs as chapter six the idea of warrior and collector belief and the idea of the spiritual world. Gomez says that the African slave culture spiritualism in Louisiana comes from Congolese Minskisi