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The human tradition in the black Atlantic, 1500-2000 / edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Karen Racine.

Penn Museum Library CT105 .H786 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Mamigonian, Beatriz G. (Beatriz Gallotti), 1969-
Racine, Karen, 1967-
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Series:
Human tradition around the world
The human tradition around the world
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
Black people.
Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.
Black people--Civil rights--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slave trade.
Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slavery.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
History.
Black people--Civil rights.
Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Atlantic Ocean Region--Race relations.
Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
vi, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2010]
Summary:
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 ordinary people who rarely left written records and would otherwise have remained anonymous and unknown.
Contents:
Introduction: People in the making of the Black Atlantic / Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Karen Racine
Alonso de Illescas (1530s-1590s) : African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in colonial Ecuador / Charles Beatty Medina
Gregoria López (1680s) : a Mexican mulata defends her honor / Aaron P. Althouse
Philip Quaque (1741-1816) : African Anglican missionary on the Gold Coast / Ty M. Reese
Harry Washington (1760s-1790s) : a Founding Father's slave / Cassandra Pybus
Rufino José Maria (1820s-1850s) : a Muslim in the nineteenth-century Brazilian slave trade circuit / João Jośe Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, and Marcus J.M. de Carvalho
Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s-1872) : African slave, head of a household, and lottery winner in Cuba / Aisnara Perera Díaz and María de los Ángeles Meriño Fuentes
Blaise Diagne (1872-1934) : Senegal's deputy to the French National Assembly / Hilary Jones
Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s) : Caribbean migrant worker deported from the United States / Lorna Biddle Rinear
C.L.R. James (1901-1989) : the Black Jacobin / Jerome Teelucksingh
Robert Robinson (1930s) : celebrity worker in the USSR / Meredith L. Roman
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889-1981) : the "Angolan" tradition of capoeira / Maya Talmon-Chvaicer
Malcolm X (1925-1965) : a Pan-African revolutionary / Alan Bloom
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) : artist, intellectual, activist / Sally Price and Richard Price.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780742567290
074256729X
9780742567306
0742567303
9780742567313
0742567311
OCLC:
429227350
Publisher Number:
99935410053

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