Biography and the Black Atlantic

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In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and ninete...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Sweet, John Wood, 1966-, Lindsay, Lisa A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Edition:First edition.
Series:Early modern Americas.
Subjects:
Biography as a literary form.
Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Historiography.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
Biography
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (379 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812208702
0812208706
0812245466
9780812245462
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 3, 2013).

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