Introduction : People in the making of the Black Atlantic -- Alonso de Illescas (1530s?-1590s) : African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in colonial Ecuador -- Gregoria López (1680s) : a Mexican mulata defends her honor -- Philip Quaque (1741-1816) : African Anglican missionary on the Gold Coast -- Harry Washington (1760s-1790s) : a Founding Father's slave -- Rufino José Maria (1820s-1850s) : a Muslim in the nineteenth-century Brazilian slave trade circuit -- Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s-1872) : African slave, head of a household, and lottery winner in Cuba -- Blaise Diagne (1872-1934) : Senegal's deputy to the French National Assembly -- Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s) : Caribbean migrant worker deported from the United States -- C.L.R. James (1901-1989) : the Black Jacobin -- Robert Robinson (1930s) : celebrity worker in the USSR -- Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889-1981) : the Angolan tradition of capoeira -- Malcolm X (1925?-1965) : a Pan-African revolutionary -- Romare Bearden (1911-1988) : artist, intellectual, activist.
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