The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade /

The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade / / ed. by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, James Sidbury, Matt D. Childs, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.

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During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though Af...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Burnard, Trevor,
Childs, Matt D.,
Dawson, Kevin,
Ferreira, Roquinaldo,
Geggus, Français David,
Germeten, Nicole von,
Landers, Jane,
Law, Robin,
Northrup, David,
Reis, João José,
Soares, Mariza de Carvalho,
Sweet, James H.,
HerausgeberIn:
Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge,
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge,
Childs, Matt D.,
Sidbury, James,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Early Modern Americas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury
  • PART I. AFRICAN IDENTITIES IN ATLANTIC SPACES
  • Chapter 1. Identity among Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone
  • Chapter 2. Ouidah as a Multiethnic Community
  • Chapter 3. African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia`
  • PART II. THE SOURCES OF BLACK AGENCY
  • Chapter 4. Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba
  • Chapter 5. The Slaves and Free People of Color of Cap
  • Chapter 6. Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of Modernity
  • PART III. URBAN SPACES AND BLACK AUTONOMY
  • Chapter 7. The African Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Cartagena and Its Hinterlands
  • Chapter 8. The Cultural Geography of Enslaved Ship Pilots
  • Chapter 9. Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda
  • Chapter 10. African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports
  • PART IV. BLACK IDENTITIES IN NON-PLANTATION ECONOMIES
  • Chapter 11. The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon
  • Chapter 12. Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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