The black urban Atlantic in the age of the slave trade /

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Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.
Description:vi, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Early modern Americas
Early modern Americas.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9287429
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Other authors / contributors:Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge.
Childs, Matt D., 1970-
Sidbury, James.
ISBN:9780812245103 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812245105 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. African Identities in Atlantic Spaces
  • Chapter 1. Identity among Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone
  • Chapter 2. Ouidah as a Multiethnic Community
  • Chapter 3. African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador
  • Part II. The Sources of Black Agency
  • Chapter 4. Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba
  • Chapter 5. The Slaves and Free People of Color of Cap
  • Chapter 6. Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of Modernity
  • Part III. Urban Spaces and Black Autonomy
  • Chapter 7. The African Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Cartagena and Its Hinterlands
  • Chapter 8. The Cultural Geography of Enslaved Ship Pilots
  • Chapter 9. Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda
  • Chapter 10. African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports
  • Part IV. Black Identities in Non-Plantation Economies
  • Chapter 11. The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon
  • Chapter 12. Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments