| Description |
vi, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Early modern Americas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.
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Sociology, Urban -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.
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Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions.
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Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations -- History.
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| Added Author |
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge.
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Childs, Matt D., 1970-
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Sidbury, James.
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| ISBN |
9780812245103 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0812245105 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
821218333 |
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