In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid

An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to Sou

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which eng

Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in t