The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Editor)

Other authorsJames Sidbury (Editor), Matt D. Childs (Editor)
PDF, 2013

Publication

University of Pennsylvania Press (2013), 382 pages

ISBN

9780812208139

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I | AFRICAN IDENTITIES IN ATLANTIC SPACES
1. Identity among Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone - David Northrup
2. Ouidah as a Multiethnic Community - Robin Law
3. African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia- João José Reis

PART II | THE SOURCES OF BLACK AGENCY
4. Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba - Matt D. Childs
5. The Slaves and Free People of Color of Cap Français - David Geggus
6. Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of Modernity - Trevor Burnard

PART III | URBAN SPACES AND BLACK AUTONOMY
7. The African Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Cartagena and Its Hinterlands - Jane Landers
8. The Cultural Geography of Enslaved Ship Pilots - Kevin Dawson
9. Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda - Roquinaldo Ferreira
10. African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports - Mariza de Carvalho Soares

PART IV | BLACK IDENTITIES IN NON-PLANTATION ECONOMIES
11. The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon - James H. Sweet
12. Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City - Nicole von Germeten

Notes
Bibliographic Essay
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
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