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Biography and the Black Atlantic

Title: Biography and the Black Atlantic / edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.

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Description

vi, 370 p. : map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Early modern Americas

Uniform Title

Early modern Americas.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-351) and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

Sc E 14-584

ISBN

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

LCCN

2013012708
40022924489

OCLC

836748451

Title

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

Imprint

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.

Series

Early modern Americas

Early modern Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-351) and index.

Added Author

Lindsay, Lisa A.

Sweet, John Wood, 1966-

Other Standard Identifier

40022924489

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-584

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