Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Terminology ix
5. Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History 1
6. 1. The U.S. and the Rest: Old and New Paradigms of Early American Jewish History 22
7. 2. Atlantic Commerce and Pragmatic Tolerance: Portuguese Jewish Participation in the Spanish Navíos de Registro System in the Seventeenth Century 42
8. 3. To Trade Is to Thrive: The Sephardic Moment in Amsterdam’s Atlantic and Caribbean Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century 62
9. 4. Trading Violence: Four Jewish Soldiers between Atlantic Empires (ca. 1600–1655) 78
10. 5. Imperial Enterprise: The Franks Family Network, Commerce, and British Expansion 99
11. 6. Declarations of Interdependence: Understanding the Entanglement of Jewish Rights and Liberties in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1740–1830 116
12. 7. Jews and Free People of Color in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Case Study in Experiential and Ethnic Entanglement 136
13. 8. Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Threat of Equality to the Jewish Way of Life 156
14. 9. Sex with Slaves and the Business of Governance: The Case of Barbados 177
15. 10. Connecting Jewish Community: An Anglophone Journal, Rev. Isaac Leeser, and a Jewish Atlantic World 197
16. Notes 215
17. Notes on Contributors 277
18. Index 279