Biography and the black Atlantic / edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet.

SeriesEarly modern Americas
Early modern Americas. ^A1093065
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-351) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013012708
ISBN9780812245462 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0812245466 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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