عنوان

Biography and the black Atlantic /

0812245466 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780812245462 (hardcover : alk. paper)

b415467

Biography and the black Atlantic /

[Book]

edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet

vi, 370 pages :

map ;

24 cm

Early modern Americas

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-351) and index

Introduction : biography and the black Atlantic / Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet -- A historical appreciation of the biographical turn / Joseph C. Miller -- Understanding the slave experience in West Africa / Martin Klein -- Robinson Charley : the ideological underpinnings of Atlantic history / Sheryl Kroen -- Black pearls : writing black Atlantic women's biography / Jon Sensbach -- Recovered lives as a window into the enslaved family / Cassandra Pybus -- From slave to wealthy African freedman : the story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo / Joäao Josâe Reis -- David Dorr's journey toward selfhood in Europe / Lloyd S. Kramer -- Methodology in the making and reception of Equiano / Vincent Carretta -- Remembering his country marks : a Nigerian American family and its "African" ancestor / Lisa A. Lindsay -- The Atlantic transformations of Francisco Menâendez / Jane Landers -- Echoes of the Atlantic : Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian independence / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- Rosalie of the Poulard nation : freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian revolution / Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel Hâebrard -- Afterword / James T. Campbell

00

Biography as a literary form

Blacks-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- Historiography

Blacks-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History

Blacks-- Atlantic Ocean Region, Biography

Slave trade-- Atlantic Ocean Region-- History

Lindsay, Lisa A

Sweet, John Wood,1966-

20150310172556.0

[Book]

Y