Table of Contents: “…New England: Puritan purposes, Akan ethics, American values ; Hudson Valley: Dutch capitalists, Angolan entrepreneurs, American strivers ; Delaware Valley: Quaker founders, Guinea achievers, American reformers -- Southern regions. Chesapeake, Virginia and Maryland: English founders, West African strivers, Afro-American leaders ; Coastal Carolina, Georgia and Florida: Barbadian planters, Gullah Geechee cultures, American roots ; Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf Coast: French, Spanish and Anglo rulers; Bamana, Benin & Congo slaves; American Pluralism in the Mississippi Valley -- Frontier regions. …”