Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World 1400-1800

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World 1400-1800
by John Thornton, Second edition 1998

Part I  Africans in Africa
   1. The birth of an Atlantic World
   2. The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans
   3. Slavery and African social structure
  4. The process of enslavement and the slave trade
Part II  Africans in the New World
  5. Africans in colonial Atlantic societies
  6. Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world; life and labor
  7. African culture groups in the Atlantic world
  8. Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world
  9. African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world
  10. Resistance, runaways, and rebels
  11. Africans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

completed reading 11/23/2017

also  Reinventing Africa
         Museums, material Culture and Popular Imagination
         in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
by Anne E. Combes, 1994

completed reading 11/29/2017
Last 2 sentences in Conclusion:
The spectre  of degeneration then, was never easily confined to Africa and the other colonies.  It haunted the very centre of the imperial heartlands and threatened to undermine irrevocably the myth of racial purity which continues to cling tenaciously to notions of 'Englishness today.
New sciences to me:  anthropology and ethnography