Origins of the Black Atlantic: New Histories
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Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations, and their labor was the foundation for the expansion of the Atlantic economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Until relatively recently, comparatively little attention was paid to the perspectives, daily experiences, hopes, and especially the political ideas of the enslaved who played such a central role in the making of the Atlantic world. Over the past decades, however, huge strides have been made in the study of the history of slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world. This collection brings together some of the key contributions to this growing body of scholarship, showing a range of methodological approaches, that can be used to understand and reconstruct the lives of these enslaved people.
Series Editor's Preface ixIntroduction Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott 1Part I People and Ideas in Circulation 71 A Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: Slave Rebellion in the West Indies in the 1730s David Barry Gaspar 112 The Jamaican Slave Insurrection Scare of 1776 and the American Revolution Richard Sheridan 263 Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage from the Danish West Indies Neville A.T. Hall 474 "Negroes in Foreign Bottoms": Sailors, Slaves, and Communication (selection) Julius S. Scott 69Part II Atlantic Generations 995 The Papacy and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Lourenço da Silva, the Capuchins, and the Decisions of the Holy Office Richard Gray 1016 From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America Ira Berlin 1167 The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852 Emily Clark Virginia Meacham Gould 159Part III Africa in the Americas 1938 African Soldiers in the Haitian Revolution John K. Thornton 1959 Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (selections) João José Reis 21410 Swearing by the Past, Swearing to the Future: Sacred Oaths, Alliances, and Treaties Among the Guianese and Jamaican Maroons Kenneth Bilby 236Part IV Insurrection and Emancipation in the Atlantic 26711 The 1812 Aponte Rebellion and the Struggle Against Slavery in Cuba (selection) Matt D. Childs 26912 The Slaves and Slavery Eric Williams 32313 "Extravagant Expectations" of Freedom: Rumour, Political Struggle, and the Christmas Insurrection Scare of 1865 in the American South Steven Hahn 33414 Reclaiming Gregoria'sMule: The Meanings of Freedom in the Arimao and Caunao Valleys, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1880-1899 Rebecca J. Scott 365Permission Acknowledgments 397Index 399
