Such concepts support societal assumptions that the marginal status of African Americans is divorced from the social structure.
They dressed in African attire and wore their hair naturally.
Petersburg, in this dissertation is provided an analysis of these issues: 1.
Efforts to repatriate African Americans to Africa from 1817 to 1860 led many African descendants to distance themselves from their African origins Berry and Blassingame 1982:399; Fuchs 1990:181; Holloway 1990:xix.
The causes and the consequences of the evolution of beliefs and values are highlighted also in the data.
These major assumptions of political economy seem to characterize the relationship between African Americans and the mainstream American society.