Central African Names and African-American Naming Patterns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3464867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Thornton (0000-0003-2312-8042, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 727 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2947473 |
| OpenAlex | W2019625519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
OR many years, historians have tried to understand how elements of African culture survived among African Americans. One line of investigation has focused on naming patterns, since such patterns can reveal the extent to which concepts of family, lineage, and kinship were retained beyond the Atlantic crossing. Recent research challenges the old idea that masters assigned names to slaves or that slaves imitated masters' systems of naming. If African-American naming patterns are not simply derivative of the slave experience or imitative of Euro-American systems, then the possibility of African contribution and nomenclatural persistence becomes much stronger.' One of the first African naming patterns to be recognized was the Akan custom of giving names.2 This pattern can be documented in America. A day name was given to a baby according to the day of the week on which it was born. Slaves in both North America and the British Caribbean often bore such names, and because the names were frequently given in Akan form (for example, Quaquoe or Cuffee) they stand out as African in inventories and advertisements.3 Even when day names were given in
African american · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Race, History, and American Society
Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Gabriela, Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)
Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)
Judith and Hannah
María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
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Laura E. Davis Titus, Nineteenth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (US)
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| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.55 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |