Assumed identities the meanings of race in the Atlantic world /

Assumed identities the meanings of race in the Atlantic world / edited by John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris ; introduction by Franklin W. Knight ; contributors, John D. Garrigus ... [and others. - first edition. - [College Station, Tex. : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A and M University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (x, 152 pages) - The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 41 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: race and identity in the new world / "Thy coming fame, Ogé! is sure": new evidence on Ogé's 1790 revolt and the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution / "The child should be made a Christian": baptism, race, and identity in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / West Indian identity in the eighteenth century / Illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil / Rosalie of the Poulard nation: freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian Revolution / In memoriam, Evan Anders. Franklin W. Knight -- John D. Garrigus -- Rebecca Goetz -- Trevor Burnard -- Sidney Chalhoub -- Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard --



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Group identity--History.--America
Eurocentrism--History.--America
Nationalism--History.--America
Slave trade--History--Brazil--19th century.


Electronic Books.

E29 / .A878 2010