Atlantic biographies : : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic World / / edited by Mark Meuwese and Jeffrey Fortin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fortin, Jeffrey A.; Meuwese, Mark.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Atlantic World; The Atlantic World 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume uses a biography-as-history approach to illuminate the interconnectedness of the peoples of the Americas, West Africa, and Europe. Contributors highlight individuals' and people's experiences made possible by their participation in the creation of an Atlantic world, where conflict, cooperation, neccessity and invention led to new societies and cultures. Composed of chapters that span a broad chronological, topical and thematic range, Atlantic Biographies highlights the uniqueness of the Atlantic as a social, political, economic, and cultural theater bound together to illustrate what the Atlantic meant to those subjects of each chapter. This is a book about people, their resilience, and their resolve to carve a niche or have a broader impact in the ever-changing world around them.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jeffrey A. Fortin -- Pierre Biard: Priest and Pirate of Mount Desert Island / Laura M. Chmielewski -- Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington -- Alexander von Humboldt, His Scientific Expedition through the Americas and the Impact of His Atlantic Experiences / Sandra Rebok -- The Crossings of Occramar Marycoo, or Newport Gardner / Edward E. Andrews -- Constituting Value in A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa / Bryan Sinche -- Enslaved Ship Pilots: Challenging Notions of Race and Slavery along the Peripheries of the Revolutionary Atlantic World / Kevin Dawson -- From Ireland to Africa: the Criminal Career and Punishment of Patrick Madan / Emma Christopher -- The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Vulnerability of Free Blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780–1830 / Mariana P. Candido -- Indigenous Leaders and the Atlantic World: The Parallel Lives of Dom Antônio Filipe Camarão and Pieter Poty, 1600–1650 / Mark Meuwese -- Law and Colonial Reform in the 18th Century Spanish World: The Life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican Lawyer / Christopher Albi -- Benkos Biohó: African Maroon Leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali -- ‘Je me vois réduit…à la mendicité:’ Marine Veterans of New France and their New Atlantic World / Christian Ayne Crouch -- Paul Cuffe’s Journey from ‘Musta’ to Atlantic-African, 1778–1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin -- Conclusion: Atlantic Lives and Atlantic History / Mark Meuwese -- Index / Jeffrey A. Fortin and Mark Meuwese.