The black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade / edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge.

Childs, Matt D., 1970-

Sidbury, James.

Series:

Early modern Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Slave trade.

Sociology, Urban--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Sociology, Urban.

Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.

Black people.

Race relations.

History.

Social conditions.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Race relations--History.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

vi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

Contents:

Part I. 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

Part II. 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

Part III. 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 culutral landscapes of Luanda / Roquinaldo Ferreira ; African barbeiros in Brazilian slave ports / Mariza de Carvalho Soares

Part IV. Black identities in non-plantation economies. The hidden histories of African Lisbon / James H. Sweet ; Black bortherhoods in Mexico City / Nicole von Germeten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812245103

0812245105

OCLC:

821218333