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

Other author/creatorFortin, Jeffrey A.
Other author/creatorMeuwese, Mark.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Descriptionxvi, 356 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 1570-0542 ; volume 27
Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) v. 27. ^A570643
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 Biohó : African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali. "Je me vois réduit... à la mendicité" : 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form9789004259713
LCCN 2013030104
ISBN9789004258976 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9004258973 (hardback : alk. paper)

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