The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

Introduction -Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury I. AFRICAN IDENTITIES IN ATLANTIC SPACES Chapter 1. Identity among Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone -David Northrup Chapter 2. Ouidah as a Multiethnic Community -Robin Law Chapter 3. African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia -João José Reis II. THE SOURCES OF BLACK AGENCY Chapter 4. Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba -Matt D. Childs Chapter 5. The Slaves and Free People of Color of Cap Français -David Geggus Chapter 6. Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of Modernity -Trevor Burnard III. URBAN SPACES AND BLACK AUTONOMY Chapter 7. The African Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Cartagena and Its Hinterlands -Jane Landers Chapter 8. The Cultural Geography of Enslaved Ship Pilots -Kevin Dawson Chapter 9. Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda -Roquinaldo Ferreira Chapter 10. African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports -Mariza de Carvalho Soares IV. BLACK IDENTITIES IN NONPLANTATION ECONOMIES Chapter 11. The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon -James H. Sweet Chapter 12. Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City -Nicole von Germeten List of Contributors Notes Bibliographic Essay Index Acknowledgments