- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 370 p.) : map.
- Series Statement
- Early modern Americas
- Uniform Title
- Biography and the black Atlantic (Online)
- Early modern Americas.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-351) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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 / Joäao Josâe 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 Menâendez / 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.
- LCCN
- 2013012708
- OCLC
- ssj0001036644
- Title
Biography and the black Atlantic [electronic resource] / 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.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Lindsay, Lisa A.
Sweet, John Wood, 1966-