159 p, Contents: The African migration and the origins of an Afro-American society and culture / Franklin W. Knight and Margaret E. Crahan; The 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; The African impact on language and literature in the English-speaking Caribbean / Maureen Warner Lewis; The African presence in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén / Lorna V. Williams.