Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo — Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (2005) Source Information

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo — Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (2005) Source Information Author: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Full Title: Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Year: 2005 Type: Secondary Source — African Ethnicities, Slave Trade Regions, and Afro-American Culture Formation Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: hall african ethnicities.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — hall african ethnicities.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — African-origins and ethnicity-clustering pass focused on Saint-Domingue, Vodou formation, and Hall's critique of flattening creolization models Chapter notes: hall ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created nago, mina, bight of biafra, and west central africa; strengthened african ethnicities saint domingue, arada, igbo, kongo, bight of benin, senegambia, moc society culture, moc historiography, and moc sources Overview Hall is one of the vault's strongest counterweights to any account of slavery that turns Africans into an undifferentiated mass. Her central claim is not that African cultures were perfectly preserved, but that specific ethnicities, regional clusters, and linguistic continuities remained historically meaningful in the Americas and must be restored to view. That matters sharply for Saint-Domingue.