The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500–-2000
This wonderful addition to the growing scholarship attempts, quite successfully, to add a human face to the black Atlantic. A topical bibliography and a filmography provide instructors and students alike a guide for further research. Highly recommended. (CHOICE)This is the richest and most scholarly collection of individual narratives shaped by the African diaspora since Philip Curtin'sAfrica Rememberedof more than forty years ago. These thirteen biographies span four centuries and offer a compellingly diverse range of the black Atlantic experience. Essential reading for all historians of the Atlantic World. (David Eltis, Emory University)Indispensable for anyone interested in Black Atlantic history. Through well-researched and well-written biographies, the authors move beyond Eurocentric approaches to the past by showing the central role of Africans and their Afro-American descendants in the making of the early modern and modern Atlantic World. (Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University)