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This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of slavery. North America: Ohio U Press.

Slave trade. --- Abolitionist Movements. --- African Communities. --- African Resistance. --- African Strategies. --- Anti-Slavery Efforts. --- Atlantic Slave Trade. --- Memory of Slavery. --- Slave Revolts. --- Slave Trade. --- West African Strategies.

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Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.

This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each ofwhich begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first section deals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. The fifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research.

Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research.

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Christian Jennings isa doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin.

Africa --- Afrique --- History --- Methodology --- Sources. --- Historiography --- Histoire --- Méthodologie --- Sources --- Historiographie --- Méthodologie --- Methodology. --- Eastern Hemisphere --- HISTORY / Africa / General. --- African historiography. --- African history. --- African sources. --- archaeological research. --- historical data. --- oral tradition. --- research methods. --- trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to tease out the shared experiences between these highly diverse parts of the world.Despite their heterogeneity in terms of cultures, languages, and political and economic histories, the connections between the African continent and the Caribbean are manifold, stretching back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The authors in this book look to the past as well as to the present, focusing on the manifold mobile connections between the regions’ subjects, objects, ideas, texts, images, sounds, and beliefs. In doing so, the book demonstrates that mobility extends beyond just the movement of people, and that we can also see mobility in objects and ideas, travelling either in a material sense or in imaginary terms, in physical as well as in virtual spaces. Bringing the transdisciplinary fields of African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Mobility Studies into dialogue, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license. Funded by Universität Wien.

Cultural relations. --- Cultural exchange --- Intercultural relations --- Intellectual cooperation --- International relations --- African Studies;Caribbean Studies;Cultural mobilities;Heterogeneity;Trans-Atlantic slave trade --- Caribbean Area --- Africa --- Civilization --- African influences. --- Relations --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region

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In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather than conducting their commerce through chartered companies based in London or Lisbon, colonial merchants in New York entered into an alliance with Euro-American pirates based in Madagascar. Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves explores the resulting global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. The book reveals that pirates played a significant yet misunderstood role in this period and that seafaring slaves were both commodities and essential components in the Indo-Atlantic maritime networks. Enlivened by stories of Indo-Atlantic sailors and cargoes that included textiles, spices, jewels and precious metals, chinaware, alcohol, and drugs, this book links previously isolated themes of piracy, colonialism, slavery, transoceanic networks, and cross-cultural interactions and extends the boundaries of traditional Atlantic, national, world, and colonial histories.

Pirates --- Slave trade --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers --- History --- North America --- 17th century world history. --- 18th century world history. --- american history. --- atlantic ocean. --- california world history series. --- colonial america. --- colonial merchants. --- colonialism. --- consumer demands. --- early american commerce. --- east indies. --- euro american pirates. --- global trade. --- history. --- indian ocean. --- informal trade network. --- merchant ships. --- north american colonies. --- north atlantic slave trade. --- piracy. --- pirates. --- retrospective. --- sailors. --- seafarers. --- seafaring. --- slave trade. --- slavery. --- transoceanic network. --- world empires. --- world history.

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"Bad Blood offers a new account of early modern race by tracing the development of European racial vocabularies from Spain to England. Dispelling assumptions, stemming from Spain's historical exclusion of Jews and Muslims, that premodern racial ideology focused on religious difference and purity of blood more than color, Emily Weissbourd argues that the context of the Atlantic slave trade is indispensable to understanding race in early modern Spanish and English literature alike. Through readings of plays by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and their contemporaries, as well as Spanish picaresque fiction and its English translations, Weissbourd reveals how ideologies of racialized slavery as well as religious difference come to England via Spain, and how both notions of race operate in conjunction to shore up fantasies of Blackness, whiteness, and "pure blood." The enslavement of Black Africans, Weissbourd shows, is inextricable from the staging of race in early modern literature"

Black people in literature. --- English literature --- Race in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Spanish literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- History andcriticism. --- Atlantic slave trade. --- Blackness. --- Early Modern. --- England. --- Iberian slave trade. --- Jews. --- Lope de Vega. --- Mabbe. --- Moorishness. --- Moors. --- Muslim. --- Othello. --- Race. --- Renaissance. --- Rogue. --- Shakespeare. --- Spain. --- Spanish comedia. --- The Spanish Gypsy. --- comparative literature. --- critical race studies. --- drama. --- identity. --- impure blood. --- morisco. --- orientalism. --- passing. --- public theater. --- purity of blood. --- religious difference. --- sixteenth seventeenth century. --- slavery. --- theater. --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Black people in literature --- Race in literature --- Slavery in literature