Biography and the Black Atlantic

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contents Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic 1 lisa a. lindsay and john wood sweet PART I. PARAMETERS Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn joseph c. miller 19 Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa martin klein 48 Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History sheryl kroen 66 PART II. MOBILITY Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women’s Biography jon sensbach 93 Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family cassandra pybus 108 Chapter 6. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo joão josé reis 131 Contents vi PART III. SELF-FASHIONING Chapter 7. David Dorr’s Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe lloyd s. kramer 149 Chapter 8. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano vincent carretta 172 Chapter 9. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its “African” Ancestor lisa a. lindsay 192 PART IV. POLITICS Chapter 10. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Menéndez jane landers 209 Chapter 11. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence roquinaldo ferreira 224 Chapter 12. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution rebecca scott and jean-michel hébrard 248 Afterword james t. campbell 269 Notes 279 List of Contributors 353 Index 359 Acknowledgments 369 A T L A N T I C O C E A N S A H A R A D E S E R T Hudson Bay Gulf of Mexico CARIBBEAN SEA CUBA HAITI ST. THOMAS P A C I F I C O C E A N I N D I A N O C E A N 0 0 500 1000 Kilometers 500 1000 Miles M EDITERRANEAN SEA NORTH SEA Paris London Liverpool Antwerp Lisbon New York Norfolk Charleston St. Augustine New Orleans Salvador Rio de Janeiro Benguela Luanda Lagos Ouidah Christianborg Gorée NOVA SCOTIA PERNAMBUCO SIERRA LEONE SOKOTO CALIPHATE BAHIA Senegal R. Gambia R. Equator Gulf Stream Westerly trade winds Northeasterly trade winds North equatorial current South equatorial current B e n g u e l a c u r r e n t Southeasterly trade winds Westerly trade winds N O R T H A M E R I C A S O U T H A M E R I C A A F R I C A E U R O P E Nantes ...