African migration and the origins of an Afro-American society and culture / Franklin W. Knight and Margaret E. Crahan -- Cultural links / Harry Hoetnik -- African and Creole slave family patterns in Trinidad / B.W. Higman -- Myalism and the African religious tradition in Jamaica / Monica Schuler -- Jamaican Jonkonnu and related Caribbean festivals / Judith Bettelheim -- African impact on language and literature in the English-speaking Caribbean / Maureen Warner Lewis -- African presence in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén / Lorna V. Williams.