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A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.

Medical geography. --- 1800-1899 --- Atlantischer Raum

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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

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Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these differing trajectories into dialogue.

Metaalindustrie. --- Christentum. --- Ethnische Identität. --- Konversion --- Religiöse Identität. --- Church history --- Christianity --- Montezinos, Antonio de, --- De Montezinos, Antonio, --- Levi, Aaron, --- Levi, Aharon, --- Monterinos, Antonie, --- אהרן, --- Atlantischer Raum. --- Conversion --- Christian converts. --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Christians --- Converts --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- History. --- Religious life.

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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

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Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment

Blacks in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Africans --- Slaves' writings, English --- English literature --- African literature (English) --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Ethnology --- English slaves' writings --- Historiography. --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Sancho, Ignatius, --- Wheatley, Phillis, --- Hammon, Briton. --- Equiano, Olaudah, --- Sancho, Charles Ignatius, --- Peters, Phillis Wheatley, --- Peters, Phillis, --- Wheatley, Phyllis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English-speaking countries --- Anglophone countries --- Countries, Anglophone --- Countries, English-speaking --- Intellectual life --- African literature (English). --- Aufsatzsammlung. --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Literatur. --- Schwarze. --- Sklaverei --- Slaves' writings, English. --- Historiography --- Black authors. --- History and criticism --- Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (Equiano, Olaudah). --- 1700-1799. --- Geschichte 1760-1880. --- Atlantischer Raum. --- English-speaking countries. --- USA. --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature. --- English enslaved persons' writings --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons' writings, English