Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic 1
4. Part I. Parameters
5. Chapter one. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn 19
6. Chapter two. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa 48
7. Chapter three. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History 66
8. Part II. Mobility
9. Chapter four. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women’s Biography 93
10. Chapter five. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family 108
11. Chapter six. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo 131
12. PART III. SELF-FASHIONING
13. Chapter seven. David Dorr’s Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe 149
14. Chapter eight. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano 172
15. Chapter nine. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its “African” Ancestor 192
16. PART IV. POLITICS
17. Chapter ten. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Menéndez 209
18. Chapter eleven. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence 224
19. Chapter twelve. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution 248
20. Afterword 269
21. Notes 279
22. Contributors 353
23. Index 359
24. Acknowledgments 369