Biography and the Black Atlantic

Abstract

Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic PART I. PARAMETERS Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn -Joseph C. Miller Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa -Martin Klein Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History -Sheryl Kroen PART II. MOBILITY Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography -Jon Sensbach Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family -Cassandra Pybus Chapter 6. From Slave to Wealthy Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo -Joao Jose Reis PART III. SELF-FASHIONING Chapter 7. David Dorr's Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe - Lloyd Kramer Chapter 8. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano -Vincent Carretta Chapter 9. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its African Ancestor -Lisa Lindsay PART IV. POLITICS Chapter 10. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Menendez -Jane Landers Chapter 11. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence -Roquinaldo Ferreira Chapter 12. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution -Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel Hebrard Afterword -James Campbell Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments