Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic world /
Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, profiles individuals who dramaticaly impacted and shaped a world that connected the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Each contributor sketches a biography that demonstrates how important individuals were to creating and imagining the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Series: | Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 27. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Atlantic sojourners
- 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
- Part II. Slavery and freedom on the edges of the Atlantic world
- 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
- Part III. Introduction
- Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao 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 Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali
- "Je me vois reduit ... a la Mendicite": marine veterans of New France and their new Atlantic world / Christian Crouch
- Paul Cuffe's journey from 'Musta' to Atlantic-African, 1778-1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin
- Conclusion: Atlantic lives and Atlantic history / Mark Meuwese.