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A groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts that chronicle the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period.

American literature --- African Americans in literature. --- Black people in literature. --- African literature (English) --- Autobiography --- African American authors.

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Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works, historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current understandings about racial discourse and the cultural contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the present across the globe.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Migration. Refugees --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Literature --- History of civilization --- History --- History of Europe --- Afrikaans --- Afrikaanse cultuur --- etnologie --- nieuwste tijd --- diaspora --- cultuur --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- culturele antropologie --- migratie (mensen) --- Europese geschiedenis --- Renaissance --- nieuwe tijd --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- North Africa --- Africa --- Caribbean area --- Latin America