In "Biography and the Black Atlantic," leading historians in the
field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and
autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and
limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and
the African diaspora. The essays remind us that historical
developments like slavery and empire-building were mostly
experienced and shaped by men and women outside of the elite
political, economic, and military groups to which historians often
turn as sources.Despite the scarcity of written records and other
methodological challenges, the contributors to "Biography and the
Black Atlantic" have pieced together vivid glimpses into lives of
remarkable, through previously unknown, enslaved and formerly
enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in different
parts of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. From the woman of Fulani
origin who made her way from Revolutionary Haiti to Louisiana to
the free black American who sailed for Liberia and the former slave
from Brazil who became a major slave trader in Angola, these
stories render the Atlantic world as a densely and sometimes
unpredictably interconnected sphere. "Biography and the Black
Atlantic" demonstrates the power of individual stories to
illuminate history: though the life histories recounted here often
involved extraordinary achievement and survival against the odds,
they also portray the struggle for self-determination and community
in the midst of alienation that lies at the heart of the modern
condition.Contributors: James T. Campbell, Vincent Carretta,
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Jean-Michel Hebrard, Martin Klein, Lloyd S.
Kramer, Sheryl Kroen, Jane Landers, Lisa A. Lindsay, Joseph C.
Miller, Cassandra Pybus, Joao Jose Reis, Rebecca J. Scott, Jon
Sensbach, John Wood Sweet.
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