Bücher der Reihe Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Series

Shows how literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape France's post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Uses theories of the body to detail the ways colonial states and their agents appropriated physicality to debase the black body, assert the inviolability of the white body, and demarcate the social boundaries between them.

Contends that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. Contributors reveal how emancipation was both a shared experience across national lines and one shaped by the particularities of a specific nation.

Contends that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. Contributors reveal how emancipation was both a shared experience across national lines and one shaped by the particularities of a specific nation.

These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.

Explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. These essays capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century.

Explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. These essays capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century.

In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.