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Title The black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade / edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 371 pages) : illustrations
Series Early modern Americas
Early modern Americas.
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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Subject Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Sociology, Urban -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Black people -- Social conditions
Race relations
Slave trade
Sociology, Urban
Ethnische Beziehungen
Hafenstadt
Schwarze
Sklave
Sklavenhandel
Stadtleben
Stadtsoziologie
SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations -- History
Subject Atlantic Ocean Region
Atlantischer Raum
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, editor.
Childs, Matt D., 1970- editor.
Sidbury, James, editor.
LC no. 2012050151
ISBN 0812208137
9780812208139