During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities
became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved
blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support
transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex
workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though Africans continued
to be exchanged as chattel, urban frontiers allowed a number of
enslaved blacks to negotiate the right to hire out their own time,
often greatly enhancing their autonomy within the Atlantic
commercial system. In The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the
Slave Trade, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the
United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black
experience in Atlantic ports, providing a rich and diverse portrait
of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era
of plantation slavery. Describing life in Portugal, Brazil, Mexico,
the Caribbean, and Africa, this volume illuminates the historical
identity, agency, and autonomy of the African experience as well as
the crucial role Atlantic cities played in the formation of
diasporic cultures. By shifting focus away from plantations, this
volume poses new questions about the nature of slavery in the
sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, illustrating early modern urban
spaces as multiethnic sites of social connectivity, cultural
incubation, and political negotiation. Contributors: Trevor
Burnard, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Matt D. Childs, Kevin Dawson,
Roquinaldo Ferreira, David Geggus, Jane Landers, Robin Law, David
Northrup, Joao Jose Reis, James H. Sweet, Nicole von Germeten.
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