Description |
1 online resource (vi, 371 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Early modern Americas |
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Early modern Americas.
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Contents |
African identities in Atlantic spaces. Identity among liberated Africans in Sierra Leone / David Northrup ; Ouidah as a multiethnic community / Robin Law ; African nations in nineteenth-century Salvador, Bahia / João José Reis -- The sources of black agency. Re-creating African ethnic identities in Cuba / Matt D. Childs ; The slaves and free people of color of Cap Français / David Geggus ; Kingston, Jamaica: crucible of modernity / Trevor Burnard -- Urban spaces and black autonomy. The African landscape of seventeenth-century Cartagena and its hinterlands / Jane Landers ; The cultural geography of enslaved ship pilots / Kevin Dawson ; Slavery and the social and cultural landscapes of Luanda / Roquinaldo Ferreira ; African barbeiros in Brazilian slave ports / Mariza de Carvalho Soares -- Black identities in non-plantation economies. The hidden histories of African Lisbon / James H. Sweet ; Black brotherhoods in Mexico City / Nicole von Germeten |
Summary |
In this book, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black experience in Atlantic ports, providing a diverse portrait of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era of plantation slavery |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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Sociology, Urban -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Slave trade
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Sociology, Urban
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Hafenstadt
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Schwarze
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Sklave
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Sklavenhandel
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Stadtleben
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Stadtsoziologie
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SUBJECT |
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations -- History
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Subject |
Atlantic Ocean Region
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Atlantischer Raum
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, editor.
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Childs, Matt D., 1970- editor.
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Sidbury, James, editor.
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LC no. |
2012050151 |
ISBN |
0812208137 |
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9780812208139 |
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