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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812931003321

Autore

Mamigonian Beatriz G (Beatriz Gallotti), <1969->

Titolo

The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500-2000 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

ISBN

1-282-47950-4

9786612479502

0-7425-6731-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

The Human Tradition around the World series

Altri autori (Persone)

RacineKaren <1967->

AlthouseAaron P

BloomAlan

CarvalhoMarcus J. M. de

Perera DíazAisnara <1967->

Meriño FuentesMaría de los Ángeles <1966->

GomesFlávio dos Santos

JonesHilary

MedinaCharles Beatty

PriceRichard

PriceSally

PybusCassandra

ReeseTy M (Ty Michael)

ReisJoão José

RinearLorna Biddle

RomanMeredith L (Meredith Lynn)

Talmon-ChvaicerMaya <1968->

TeelucksinghJerome

Disciplina

305.896

920.0092960163

Soggetti

Atlantic Ocean Region

Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography

Atlantic Ocean Region - Race relations

Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations

Atlantic Ocean Region - Social conditions

Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions

Blacks - Atlantic Ocean Region

Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography

Blacks - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History



Blacks - Atlantic Ocean Region - Social conditions

Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions

Blacks - Civil rights - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Blacks -- Civil rights -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History

Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History

Slavery - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Introduction People in the Making of the Black Atlantic; Chapter 1 Alonso de Illescas (1530s-1590s): African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in Colonial Ecuador; Chapter 2 Gregoria López (1680s): A Mexican Mulata Defends Her Honor; Chapter 3 Philip Quaque (1741-1816): African Anglican Missionary on the Gold Coast; Chapter 4 Harry Washington (1760s-1790s): A Founding Father's Slave; Chapter 5 Rufino José Maria (1820s-1850s): A Muslim in the Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Trade Circuit

Chapter 6 Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s-1872): African Slave, Head of a Household, and Lottery Winner in CubaChapter 7 Blaise Diagne (1872-1934): Senegal's Deputy to the French National Assembly; Chapter 8 Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s): Caribbean Migrant Worker Deported from the United States; Chapter 9 C. L. R. James (1901-1989): The Black Jacobin; Chapter 10 Robert Robinson (1930s): Celebrity Worker in the USSR; Chapter 11 Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889-1981): The "Angolan" Tradition of Capoeira; Chapter 12 Malcolm X (1925-1965): A Pan-African Revolutionary

Chapter 13 Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Artist, Intellectual, Activist

Sommario/riassunto

Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, adaptation, cultural transformations, and the quest for citizenship rights. Drawing on a rich array of little-known documents, the contributors reconstruct the lives and times of some well-known characte