Biography and the black Atlantic
By: edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet
Series: Early modern Americas; Early modern Americas
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780812245462; 9780812208702
Subjects: Historiography; Slave trade; Biography as a literary form; Blacks; Biographies; Diasporas; Noirs; Schwarze; Traite des esclaves; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : biography and the black Atlantic / Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet; title: A historical appreciation of the biographical turn / Joseph C. Miller; title: Understanding the slave experience in West Africa / Martin Klein; title: Robinson Charley : the ideological underpinnings of Atlantic history / Sheryl Kroen; title: Black pearls : writing black Atlantic women's biography / Jon Sensbach; title: Recovered lives as a window into the enslaved family / Cassandra Pybus; title: From slave to wealthy African freedman : the story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo / Joäao Josâe Reis; title: David Dorr's journey toward selfhood in Europe / Lloyd S. Kramer; title: Methodology in the making and reception of Equiano / Vincent Carretta; title: Remembering his country marks : a Nigerian American family and its "African" ancestor / Lisa A. Lindsay; title: The Atlantic transformations of Francisco Menâendez / Jane Landers; title: Echoes of the Atlantic : Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian independence / Roquinaldo Ferreira; title: Rosalie of the Poulard nation : freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian revolution / Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel Hâebrard; title: Afterword / James T. Campbell.