Atlantic biographies : individuals and peoples in the Atlantic world / edited by Jeffrey A. Fortin & Mark Meuwese.

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TextSeries: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 27.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789004259713
9004259716

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Additional physical formats: No title; No title; Print version:: Atlantic biographies.DDC classification:

910.9163 B 23

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D210 .A768 2014

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Contents:

Part I. Atlantic sojourners -- Pierre Biard: priest and pirate of Mount Desert Island / Laura M. Chmielewski -- Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington -- Alexander von Humboldt, his scientific expedition through the Americas and the impact of his Atlantic experiences / Sandra Rebok -- Part II. Slavery and freedom on the edges of the Atlantic world -- The crossings of Occramar Marycoo, or Newport Gardner / Edward E. Andrews -- Constituting value in a narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa / Bryan Sinche -- Enslaved ship pilots: challenging notions of race and slavery along the peripheries of the revolutionary Atlantic world / Kevin Dawson -- From Ireland to Africa: the criminal career and punishment of Patrick Madan / Emma Christopher -- The transatlantic slave trade and the vulnerability of free blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780-1830 / Mariana P. Candido -- Part III. Introduction -- Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao and Pieter Poty, 1600-1650 / Mark Meuwese -- Law and colonial reform in the 18th century Spanish world: the life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican lawyer / Christopher Albi -- Benkos Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali -- "Je me vois reduit ... a la Mendicite": marine veterans of New France and their new Atlantic world / Christian Crouch -- Paul Cuffe's journey from 'Musta' to Atlantic-African, 1778-1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin -- Conclusion: Atlantic lives and Atlantic history / Mark Meuwese.

Summary: Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, profiles individuals who dramaticaly impacted and shaped a world that connected the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Each contributor sketches a biography that demonstrates how important individuals were to creating and imagining the Atlantic world from 1600 to 1850.

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Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, profiles individuals who dramaticaly impacted and shaped a world that connected the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Each contributor sketches a biography that demonstrates how important individuals were to creating and imagining the Atlantic world from 1600 to 1850.

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