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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

vi, 370 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Blacks--Atlantic Ocean Region--Historiography.
Blacks--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
Blacks--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Biography as a literary form.

Other Authors:

Lindsay, Lisa A.
Sweet, John Wood, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword / James T. Campbell. 12. A historical appreciation of the biographical turn / Joseph C. Miller -- 2. Understanding the slave experience in West Africa / Martin Klein -- 3. Robinson Charley : the ideological underpinnings of Atlantic history / Sheryl Kroen -- 4. Black pearls : writing black Atlantic women's biography / Jon Sensbach -- 5. Recovered lives as a window into the enslaved family / Cassandra Pybus -- 6. From slave to wealthy African freedman : the story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo / Jo©Đo Jos©♭ Reis -- 7. David Dorr's journey toward selfhood in Europe / Lloyd S. Kramer -- 8. Methodology in the making and reception of Equiano / Vincent Carretta -- 9. Remembering his country marks : a Nigerian American family and its "African" ancestor / Lisa A. Lindsay -- 10. The Atlantic transformations of Francisco Men©♭ndez / Jane Landers -- 11. Echoes of the Atlantic : Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian independence / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- 12. Rosalie of the Poulard nation : freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian revolution / Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel H©♭brard -- Afterword / James T. Campbell.

Series:

The Early modern Americas

ISBN:

0812245466 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812245462 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)836748451

LCCN:

2013012708

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)