The human tradition in the black Atlantic, 1500-2000 /

The human tradition in the black Atlantic, 1500-2000 /

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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 f.

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Mamigonian, Beatriz G. 1969-, Racine, Karen, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2010.
Series:Human tradition around the world.
Subjects:
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
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.
Slavery > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
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Table of 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.

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