Biography and the Black Atlantic

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Author	: Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages	: 385
Release	: 2014
ISBN-10	: 9780812245462
ISBN-13	: 0812245466
Rating	: 4/5 (62 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Biography and the Black Atlantic by : Lisa A. Lindsay

Book excerpt: In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

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