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Title:

The black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade / edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

vi, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Sociology, Urban--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Blacks--Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.
Atlantic Ocean Region--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge.
Childs, Matt D., 1970-
Sidbury, James.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part I. African identities in Atlantic spaces. Identity among liberated Africans in Sierra Leone / David Northrup ; Ouidah as a multiethnic community / Robin Law ; African nations in nineteenth-century Salvador, Bahia / João José Reis -- Part II. The sources of black agency. Re-creating African ethnic identities in Cuba / Matt D. Childs ; The slaves and free people of color of Cap Français / David Geggus ; Kingston, Jamaica: crucible of modernity / Trevor Burnard -- Part III. Urban spaces and black autonomy. The African landscape of seventeenth-century Cartagena and its hinterlands / Jane Landers ; The cultural geography of enslaved ship pilots / Kevin Dawson ; Slavery and the social and culutral landscapes of Luanda / Roquinaldo Ferreira ; African barbeiros in Brazilian slave ports / Mariza de Carvalho Soares -- Part IV. Black identities in non-plantation economies. The hidden histories of African Lisbon / James H. Sweet ; Black bortherhoods in Mexico City / Nicole von Germeten.

Series:

Early modern Americas

ISBN:

0812245105 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812245103 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)821218333

LCCN:

2012050151

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)