Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic world /
Fortin, Jeffrey A.
Meuwese, Mark.
Includes index.
Part I. Atlantic sojourners -- Pierre Biard: priest and pirate of Mount Desert Island / Laura M. Chmielewski -- Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington -- Alexander von Humboldt, his scientific expedition through the Americas and the impact of his Atlantic experiences / Sandra Rebok -- Part II. Slavery and freedom on the edges of the Atlantic world -- The crossings of Occramar Marycoo, or Newport Gardner / Edward E. Andrews -- Constituting value in a narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa / Bryan Sinche -- Enslaved ship pilots: challenging notions of race and slavery along the peripheries of the revolutionary Atlantic world / Kevin Dawson -- From Ireland to Africa: the criminal career and punishment of Patrick Madan / Emma Christopher -- The transatlantic slave trade and the vulnerability of free blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780-1830 / Mariana P. Candido -- Part III. Introduction -- Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao and Pieter Poty, 1600-1650 / Mark Meuwese -- Law and colonial reform in the 18th century Spanish world: the life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican lawyer / Christopher Albi -- Benkos Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali -- "Je me vois reduit...a la Mendicite": marine veterans of New France and their new Atlantic world / Christian Crouch -- Paul Cuffe's journey from 'Musta' to Atlantic-African, 1778-1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin -- Conclusion: Atlantic lives and Atlantic history / Mark Meuwese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.