The American South and the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Brian Ward, Martyn Bone, and William A. Link

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452744103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013
• ISBN: 9780813046475; 0-8130-4647-5; 0-8130-4833-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BoneMartyn <1974->; LinkWilliam A; WardBrian <1961->
• Disciplina: 305.800975
• Soggetti: African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions; Electronic books.; Southern States History; Southern States Race relations; Southern States Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Brian Ward -- Caryl Phillips, David Armitage, and the place of the American South in Atlantic and other worlds / Brian Ward -- Early southern religions in a global age / Jon Sensbach -- "A most unfortunate divel . . . without the prospect of getting anything": a Virginia planter negotiates the late Stuart Atlantic world / Natalie Zacek -- Revolutionary refugees: black flight in the age of revolution / Jennifer K. Snyder -- The case of Jean Baptiste, un Creole de Saint-Domingue: narrating slavery, freedom, and the Haitian revolution in Baltimore City / Martha S. Jones -- Ending with a whimper, not a bang: the relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South / Trevor Burnard -- Was U.S. emancipation exceptional in the Atlantic, or other worlds? / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie -- The textual Atlantic: race, time, and representation in the writings of AME Bishop Levi Jenkins Coppin / Leigh Anne Duck -- Whose "folk" are they anyway? Zora Neale Hurston and Lady Augusta Gregory in the ; Atlantic World / Kathleen M. Gough -- Princess Laura Kofey and the reverse Atlantic experience / Natanya Keisha Duncan -- Dish-washing in the Sea of Ndayaan: what we make of our souths in Atlantic World initiation / Keith Cartwright.
• Sommario/riassunto: An examination of three different areas of the culture of the South in the United States: the Atlantic world, the nineteenth century, and consumer culture.