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The black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade /

In this book, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black experience in Atlantic ports, providing a diverse portrait of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era of plantation slavery.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge (Editor ), Childs, Matt D., 1970- (Editor ), Sidbury, James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Colección:Early modern Americas.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • African identities in Atlantic spaces. Identity among liberated Africans in Sierra Leone / David Northrup ; Ouidah as a multiethnic community / Robin Law ; African nations in nineteenth-century Salvador, Bahia / João José Reis
  • The sources of black agency. Re-creating African ethnic identities in Cuba / Matt D. Childs ; The slaves and free people of color of Cap Français / David Geggus ; Kingston, Jamaica: crucible of modernity / Trevor Burnard
  • Urban spaces and black autonomy. The African landscape of seventeenth-century Cartagena and its hinterlands / Jane Landers ; The cultural geography of enslaved ship pilots / Kevin Dawson ; Slavery and the social and cultural landscapes of Luanda / Roquinaldo Ferreira ; African barbeiros in Brazilian slave ports / Mariza de Carvalho Soares
  • Black identities in non-plantation economies. The hidden histories of African Lisbon / James H. Sweet ; Black brotherhoods in Mexico City / Nicole von Germeten