 | The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade Subjects: Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Sociology Urban -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions; Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations -- History; 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. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of several books, including How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Matt D. Childs is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and author of The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery. James Sidbury is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University and author of Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. |
