Creolization

The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective is the vault's main theory note for this process. Mintz and Price argue that enslaved Africans often arrived as socially heterogeneous crowds rather than intact communities. What they undeniably shared at the outset was enslavement. Out of that condition, they built a Slave Sector with its own practices of communication, obligation, worship, exchange, and care.