This book presents new approaches to understanding African history
from major historians of the subject matter. This collection of
articles and forums by prominent historians explores the
relationship of Africa to world history, maps the current state of
the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy
of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative. The standard approach of
world historians often compresses the African past into
interpretive frameworks that leave Africans without a history of
their own. Joseph C. Miller makes the case here for an alternative
approach, a multicentric world history that gives voice to the
various ways Africans experienced the past, and an impressive array
of Africanist and world historians respond.The volume also assesses
the state of the field of Atlantic history and includes a spirited
forum on Vincent Carretta's provocative thesis that Olaudah
Equiano, author of the most important account available of the
horrific Middle Passage, was actually born in South Carolina and
not Africa. Designed to serve as a companion text for courses in
African, Atlantic, and world history, this volume will also appeal
to lay readers interested in contemporary approaches to these
topics. The contributors are Trevor Burnard, Vincent Carretta,
Ricardo Duchesne, Paul E. Lovejoy, Patrick Manning, William H.
McNeill, Joseph C. Miller, David Northrup, Jonathan T. Reynolds,
Michael Salman, Jon Sensbach, Ajay Skaria, and John K. Thornton.
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