The human tradition in the black Atlantic, 1500-2000
Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the f
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Introduction: People in the making of the Black Atlantic / Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Karen Racine
Alonso de Illescas (1530s?-1590s) : African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in colonial Ecuador / Charles Beatty Medina
Gregoria López (1680s) : a Mexican mulata defends her honor / Aaron P. Althouse
Philip Quaque (1741-1816) : African Anglican missionary on the Gold Coast / Ty M. Reese
Harry Washington (1760s-1790s) : a Founding Father's slave / Cassandra Pybus
Rufino José Maria (1820s-1850s) : a Muslim in the nineteenth-century Brazilian slave trade circuit / João Jośe Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, and Marcus J.M. de Carvalho
Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s-1872) : African slave, head of a household, and lottery winner in Cuba / Aisnara Perera Díaz and María de los Ángeles Meriño Fuentes
Blaise Diagne (1872-1934) : Senegal's deputy to the French National Assembly / Hilary Jones
Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s) : Caribbean migrant worker deported from the United States / Lorna Biddle Rinear
C.L.R. James (1901-1989) : the Black Jacobin / Jerome Teelucksingh
Robert Robinson (1930s) : celebrity worker in the USSR / Meredith L. Roman
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889-1981) : the Angolan tradition of capoeira / Maya Talmon-Chvaicer
Malcolm X (1925?-1965) : a Pan-African revolutionary / Alan Bloom
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) : artist, intellectual, activist / Sally Price and Richard Price
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