The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: AFRICAN IDENTITIES IN ATLANTIC SPACES -- Chapter 1 Identity among Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone -- Chapter 2 Ouidah as a Multiethnic Community -- Chapter 3 African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia -- PART II: THE SOURCES OF BLACK AGENCY -- Chapter 4 Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba -- Chapter 5 The Slaves and Free People of Color of Cap Français -- Chapter 6 Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of Modernity -- PART III: URBAN SPACES AND BLACK AUTONOMY -- Chapter 7 The African Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Cartagena and Its Hinterlands -- Chapter 8 The Cultural Geography of Enslaved Ship Pilots -- Chapter 9 Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda -- Chapter 10 African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports -- PART IV: BLACK IDENTITIES IN NON-PLANTATION ECONOMIES -- Chapter 11 The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon -- Chapter 12 Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

In The Black Urban Atlantic, 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.

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