Based on innovative and extensive research, this edited volume
examines the complex and unique human, cultural, and religious
exchanges that resulted from the enslavement and the trade of
Africans in the North and the South Atlantic regions during the era
of the transatlantic slave trade. The book shows the connections
between multiple Atlantic worlds that contain unique and diverse
characteristics. The Atlantic slave trade disrupted African
societies, families, and kin groups. Along the paths of the slave
trade, men, women and children were imprisoned, separated, raped,
and killed by war, famine and disease. The authors investigate some
of the different pathways, whether physical and geographical or
intellectual and metaphorical, that arose over the centuries in
different parts of the Atlantic world in response to the slave
trade and slavery. Highlighting unique and similar aspects, this
groundbreaking book follows the trajectories of individuals,
groups, and images, rethinking their relations with the local, and
the Atlantic contexts.Although not neglecting statistic data, the
volume focuses on the movement of groups and individuals as well as
the cultural, artistic and religious transfers deriving from the
Atlantic slave trade. Privileging multidirectional and
transnational approaches, the authors investigate regions and
groups usually underrepresented in Atlantic scholarship. The
various chapters reassess the results of the transatlantic slave
trade interactions that gave birth to mixed groups, cultures, and
artistic forms on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Some chapters
examine the trajectories of North Americans who fought against
slavery, as well as those historical actors who benefited from the
trade by selling and buying enslaved people. Other chapters study
the lives of enslaved Africans and people of African descent, in
order to understand how these experiences are brought to the
present and reinterpreted by the later generations through visual
arts and film. As a number of contributors included in this volume
argue, the exchanges that resulted from the movement of peoples,
goods, ideas, mentalities, tastes, and images and their legacies
did not stop with the end of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery,
but remain the object of continuous transformation, adaptation, and
reinvention.Challenging the prevailing Atlantic world scholarship
that usually privileges economic exchanges and demographic data,
the book illuminates the multiple experiences of African and
African-descended male and female historical actors in the North
and the South Atlantic spaces. The various paths of the slave trade
explored in the different chapters of this book shed light on the
trajectories and representations of African individuals and their
descendants in the Atlantic basin and beyond. Although the victims
are no longer alive to narrate their experiences, the various
authors attempt, even when the sources are scarce, to retrace the
slaving paths of the male and female victims, allowing us to figure
out the development of multiple Atlantic individual and collective
encounters and interactions. Eventually, some contributors show
that these individuals and groups who were forced into different
pathways, sometimes were able to negotiate, to make choices, and
seal various sorts of alliances, facing the challenges imposed by
the Atlantic slave trade brutal dynamics.This is an important book
for collections in slavery studies, Atlantic history, history of
the United States, Latin American and Caribbean history, African
studies and African Diaspora.
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