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An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War   While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish primary documents-as well as English-language material-to shed new light on the changing behavior of slave traders and their networks, particularly in Brazil and Cuba. Slavery in these nations, as Marques shows, contributed to the mounting tensions that would ultimately lead to the U.S. Civil War. Taking a truly Atlantic perspective, Marques outlines the multiple forms of U.S. involvement in this traffic amid various legislation and shifting international relations, exploring the global processes that shaped the history of this participation. 

Slave trade --- Slave traders --- History. --- America. --- Brazil. --- Cuba. --- United States. --- Atlantischer Raum --- USA --- Atlantischer Raum. --- USA.

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"Edward Sugden's "Emergent Worlds" explores the topics of so-called "interludes" in various books that have originated in nineteenth-century America"--

Political culture --- Social change --- Literature and history --- Social change in literature. --- American literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Melville, Herman --- Melville, Herman, --- Political and social views. --- USA --- Pazifischer Raum --- Karibik --- Atlantischer Raum --- United States. --- America. --- America --- Benito Cereno. --- Caribbean. --- Haiti. --- Herman Melville. --- James Fenimore Cooper. --- Liberia. --- Pacific elegy. --- Pacific. --- Sierra Leone. --- archival. --- black counterfactual. --- black historiography. --- city mysteries. --- democracy. --- dissonant times. --- emergent politics. --- emergent worlds. --- genres. --- geoculture. --- historical folds. --- immigrant gothic. --- immigration. --- interstices. --- interstitial. --- moby dick. --- nativism. --- nineteenth-century America. --- oceanic geography. --- oceanic. --- queer migrant. --- slavery. --- suspended state. --- systemic uncertainty. --- threshold state. --- transition state. --- world-system. --- USA. --- Pazifischer Raum. --- Karibik. --- Atlantischer Raum.

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The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of international significance. Here is a literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants.

Caribbean literature --- Haitianische Revolution. --- Literatur. --- Literature. --- Public opinion. --- Race in literature. --- Race relations. --- History and criticism. --- Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804). --- 1791-1804. --- Atlantischer Raum. --- Haiti --- Haiti. --- Foreign public opinion. --- History --- Foreign public opinion --- Literature and the revolution --- In literature. --- Race relations --- History.

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'Kinship Across the Black Atlantic provides an outstanding analysis of new models and modes of family-making proposed by a range of key contemporary diasporic writers. Drawing upon a wealth of critical discussions of kinship drawn from anthropology, philosophy, feminism, queer studies, and more besides, Gigi Adair pursues a series of dazzling, detailed readings of the literary re-imagining of family-making across the black Atlantic. Ever alert to the pitfalls as well as the possibilities of fictionalising kinship anew, her vibrant analysis valuably uncovers the progressive modes of kinship that diasporic writing daringly and urgently proposes, often by reaching beyond the colonial-crafted constraints of heteronormativity, genealogy and biocentric myths of 'blood'.' John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, University of Leeds This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they demonstrate the importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century.

American fiction --- African literature (English) --- English literature --- American literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- African authors --- Atlantischer Raum --- USA --- United States of America --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- United States --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Meiguo --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- US --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika --- Zirkumatlantischer Raum --- Atlantik --- Atlantik-Staaten --- Atlantischer Ozean --- Black Atlantic --- Postcolonial --- Diaspora --- Queer --- Fiction