Screen LibraryBiography and the black atlantic /
In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and ninete...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The early modern americas
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| Summary: |
In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 1 map |
| ISBN: | 9780812208702 |
| Index Number: | D13 |
| CLC: | F119 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic / Chapter one. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn / Chapter two. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa / Chapter three. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History / Chapter four. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women s Biography / Chapter five. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family / Chapter six. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo / Chapter seven. David Dorr s Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe / Chapter eight. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano / Chapter nine. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its "African" Ancestor / Chapter ten. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Men ndez / Chapter eleven. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence / Chapter twelve. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution / Afterword / Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |