The American South and the Atlantic World

Contents

Contents Preface: Understanding the South vii Introduction 1 Brian Ward 1. Caryl Phillips, David Armitage, and the Place of the American South in Atlantic and Other Worlds 8 Brian Ward 2. Early Southern Religions in a Global Age 45 Jon Sensbach 3. “A Most Unfortunate Divel . . . without the Prospect of Getting Anything”: A Virginia Planter Negotiates the Late Stuart Atlantic World 61 Natalie Zacek 4. Revolutionary Refugees: Black Flight in the Age of Revolution 81 Jennifer K. Snyder 5. The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole de Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City 104 Martha S. Jones 6. Ending with a Whimper, Not a Bang: The Relationship between Atlantic History and the Study of the Nineteenth-Century South 129 Trevor Burnard 7. Was U.S. Emancipation Exceptional in the Atlantic, or Other Worlds? 149 Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 8. The Textual Atlantic: Race, Time, and Representation in the Writings of AME Bishop Levi Jenkins Coppin 170 Leigh Anne Duck 9. Whose “Folk” Are They Anyway? Zora Neale Hurston and Lady Augusta Gregory in the Atlantic World 195 Kathleen M. Gough 10. Princess Laura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience 218 Natanya Keisha Duncan 11. Dish-Washing in the Sea of Ndayaan: What We Make of Our Souths in Atlantic World Initiation 239 Keith Cartwright List of Contributors 261 Index 265 ...