Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World - Paperbackby Christopher C. Fennell (Author) Christopher Fennell offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World. He also explores similar developments among European immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans. Focusing on extant artifacts left by displaced Africans, Fennell finds that material culture and religious ritual contributed to