LEADER 05336nam 2200757 450 001 9910464947003321 005 20220204200329.0 010 $a0-8122-0870-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208702 035 $a(CKB)3710000000020877 035 $a(OCoLC)868967268 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10780888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036644 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11574612 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036644 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041952 035 $a(PQKB)10122247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442284 035 $a(OCoLC)866923664 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27255 035 $a(DE-B1597)449767 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10780888 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682543 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000020877 100 $a20130401h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBiography and the black Atlantic /$fedited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2014] 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (379 p.) 225 0 $aThe Early Modern Americas 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51261-2 311 0 $a0-8122-4546-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographies and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic --$tChapter one. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn --$tChapter two. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa --$tChapter three. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History --$tChapter four. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women?s Biography --$tChapter five. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family --$tChapter six. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo --$tChapter seven. David Dorr?s Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe --$tChapter eight. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano --$tChapter nine. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its ?African? Ancestor --$tChapter ten. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Menéndez --$tChapter eleven. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence --$tChapter twelve. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tContributors --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and the African diaspora. The essays remind us that historical developments like slavery and empire-building were mostly experienced and shaped by men and women outside of the elite political, economic, and military groups to which historians often turn as sources. Despite the scarcity of written records and other methodological challenges, the contributors to Biography and the Black Atlantic have pieced together vivid glimpses into lives of remarkable, through previously unknown, enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in different parts of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. From the woman of Fulani origin who made her way from Revolutionary Haiti to Louisiana to the free black American who sailed for Liberia and the former slave from Brazil who became a major slave trader in Angola, these stories render the Atlantic world as a densely and sometimes unpredictably interconnected sphere. Biography and the Black Atlantic demonstrates the power of individual stories to illuminate history: though the life histories recounted here often involved extraordinary achievement and survival against the odds, they also portray the struggle for self-determination and community in the midst of alienation that lies at the heart of the modern condition. Contributors: James T. Campbell, Vincent Carretta, Roquinaldo Ferreira, Jean-Michel Hébrard, Martin Klein, Lloyd S. Kramer, Sheryl Kroen, Jane Landers, Lisa A. Lindsay, Joseph C. Miller, Cassandra Pybus, João José Reis, Rebecca J. Scott, Jon Sensbach, John Wood Sweet. 410 0$aEarly modern Americas. 606 $aBiography as a literary form 606 $aSlave trade$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aBlack people$zAtlantic Ocean Region$vBiography 606 $aBlack people$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aBlack people$zAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory. 615 0$aBlack people 615 0$aBlack people$xHistory. 615 0$aBlack people$xHistoriography. 676 $a909/.049601821 701 $aSweet$b John Wood$f1966-$01046696 701 $aLindsay$b Lisa A$0477018 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464947003321 996 $aBiography and the black Atlantic$92473796 997 $aUNINA