| Description |
1 online resource (379 pages) |
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Early modern Americas |
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Early modern Americas.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic / Lindsay, Lisa A. ; Wood Sweet, John -- Chapter one. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn / Miller, Joseph C. -- Chapter two. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa / Klein, Martin -- Chapter three. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History / Kroen, Sheryl -- Chapter four. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography / Sensbach, Jon -- Chapter five. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family / Pybus, Cassandra -- Chapter six. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo / Reis, João José -- Chapter seven. David Dorr's Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe / Kramer, Lloyd S. -- Chapter eight. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano / Carretta, Vincent -- Chapter nine. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its "African" Ancestor / Lindsay, Lisa A. -- Chapter ten. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Menéndez / Landers, Jane -- Chapter eleven. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence / Ferreira, Roquinaldo -- Chapter twelve. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution / Scott, Rebecca J. ; Hébrard, Jean M. -- Afterword / Campbell, James T. -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
African Studies |
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African-American Studies |
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American History |
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American Studies |
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European History |
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History |
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World History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 3, 2013) |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography
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Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Historiography
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Biography.
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Biographies as Topic
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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Biography as a literary form
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Black people
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Black people -- Historiography
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Slave trade
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Atlantic Ocean Region
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sweet, John Wood, 1966-
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Lindsay, Lisa A
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| ISBN |
9780812208702 |
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0812208706 |
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0812245466 |
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9780812245462 |
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