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This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to 1850, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850 explores transatlantic connections by following individuals whose experience took them far beyond their local communities to new and unfamiliar places. A formidable barrier, the Atlantic Ocean profoundly influenced the lives it touched. For some brave or desperate souls, it offered an escape, a source of adventure or romance. For countless others, it provided a steady source of income. For those who voluntarily undertook the voyage, crossing the Atlantic meant hope for a better, happier life; for the millions of less-fortunate others who relocated because they had been enslaved, tricked, or banished, the Atlantic was a sea of sorrow and loss.
Yet, whatever the reason, tremendous creativity and dynamism resulted from contact between people of different cultures, classes, races, ideas, and systems in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. At its most fundamental level, the syncretic nature of Atlantic world societies was created and re-created on a daily basis by myriad choices made by hundreds of thousands of individuals. By emphasizing movement and circulation in its choice of life stories, this readable and engaging volume presents a broad cross-section of people—both famous and everyday—whose lives and livelihoods took them across the Atlantic and brought disparate cultures into contact.
Contributions by: Robert D. Aguirre, Troy Bickham, Olwyn M. Blouet, Sarah Cline, Andrew B. Fisher, John Garrigus, Noah L. Gelfand, Mark Hinchman, Charlene Boyer Lewis, Gail Danvers MacLeitch, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Mark Meuwese, Joan Meznar, John Navin, Jeff Pardue, Magnus Roberto de Mello Pereira, Cassandra Pybus, and Karen Racine.
This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to 1850, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850 explores transatlantic connections by following individuals whose experience took them far beyond their local communities to new and unfamiliar places. A formidable barrier, the Atlantic Ocean profoundly influenced the lives it touched. For some brave or desperate souls, it offered an escape, a source of adventure or romance. For countless others, it provided a steady source of income. For those who voluntarily undertook the voyage, crossing the Atlantic meant hope for a better, happier life; for the millions of less-fortunate others who relocated because they had been enslaved, tricked, or banished, the Atlantic was a sea of sorrow and loss.
Yet, whatever the reason, tremendous creativity and dynamism resulted from contact between people of different cultures, classes, races, ideas, and systems in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. At its most fundamental level, the syncretic nature of Atlantic world societies was created and re-created on a daily basis by myriad choices made by hundreds of thousands of individuals. By emphasizing movement and circulation in its choice of life stories, this readable and engaging volume presents a broad cross-section of people—both famous and everyday—whose lives and livelihoods took them across the Atlantic and brought disparate cultures into contact.
Contributions by: Robert D. Aguirre, Troy Bickham, Olwyn M. Blouet, Sarah Cline, Andrew B. Fisher, John Garrigus, Noah L. Gelfand, Mark Hinchman, Charlene Boyer Lewis, Gail Danvers MacLeitch, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Mark Meuwese, Joan Meznar, John Navin, Jeff Pardue, Magnus Roberto de Mello Pereira, Cassandra Pybus, and Karen Racine.
Introduction: The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World
Karen Racine and Beatriz G. Mamigonian
Chapter 1: Catarina Álvares Paraguaçu (1510s–1582): Indian
Visionary in Brazil and France
Joan Meznar
Chapter 2: John Billington and His Family (c. 1582–1630): Doomed
"Knave" of Plymouth Plantation
John Navin
Chapter 3: Samuel Cohen (c. 1600–1642): Jewish Translator in
Brazil, Curaçao, and Angola
Mark Meuwese
Chapter 4: William Lamport/Guillén de Lombardo (c. 1611–1659):
Mexico's Irish Would-Be King
Sarah Cline
Chapter 5: Jacob Leisler (1640–1691): German-Born Governor of New
York
Noah L. Gelfand
Chapter 6: Hendrick/Tiyanoga/Theyanoguen (1680–1755): Iroquois
Emissary to England
Troy Bickham
Chapter 7: Sir William Johnson (1715–1774): English Emissary to the
Iroquois
Gail Danvers MacLeitch
Chapter 8: Henry "Harry" Washington (1750s–1790s): A Founding
Father's Slave
Cassandra Pybus
Chapter 9: Julien Raimond (1744–1801): Planter, Revolutionary, and
Free Man of Color in Saint-Domingue
John Garrigus
Chapter 10: Anne Pépin (1758–1837): Entrepreneur, Landlady, and
Mixed-Race Signare in Senegal
Mark Hinchman
Chapter 11: João da Silva Feijó (1760–1824): Brazilian Scientist in
the Portuguese Overseas Empire
Magnus Roberto de Mello Pereira, Translated by Ana Maria Rufino
Gillies with assistance from Ian Robert Gillies
Chapter 12: Juan Antonio Olavarrieta (1765–1822): Basque Cleric and
Libertine Rebel in Mexico
Andrew B. Fisher
Chapter 13: Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840): Feminist Slave Owner in
Barbados
Olwyn M. Blouet
Chapter 14: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879): Napoleon's
American Sister-in-Law
Charlene Boyer Lewis
Chapter 15: James MacQueen (1778–1870): Agent of Imperial Change in
the Caribbean and Africa
Jeff Pardue
Chapter 16: William Bullock: (1773–1849): British Museum Curator
and Showman in Mexico
Robert D. Aguirre
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Karen Racine is associate professor of history at the University of Guelph, Canada. Beatriz G. Mamigonian is professor of history at the Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
A refreshing counterpoint to the existing literature, The Human
Tradition in the Atlantic World helps us understand at the
individual level how the Atlantic was shaped. Featuring sixteen men
and women who not only crossed the ocean, but traversed imperial,
cultural, and linguistic barriers, this collection admirably
illustrates the entangled and dynamic nature of the Atlantic
world.
*Wim Klooster, Clark University*
This collection introduces a vibrant array of individual lives that
Atlantic history might have otherwise forgotten. The contributors
to this volume have revealed Jewish translators, Indian
visionaries, African entrepreneurs, Iroquois emissaries, and
revolutionary men (and women) of color that were part of a
dazzling, multicultural Atlantic. Scholars and students will be
able to follow the intersecting human itineraries of the Atlantic
world like never before.
*Neil Safier, University of British Columbia; author of Measuring
the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America*
Approaching the interconnected Atlantic world through the
experiences of individuals of many different ranks and positions,
as these essays do, draws students in and gives them more direct
access to the kinds of skills and risk-taking that made that world
function.
*Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University*
The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World is packed with exemplary
lives that can only be appreciated in an Atlantic context. These
are not textbook heroes, but rather ordinary people caught in the
slipstream of Atlantic history in the Age of Sail. Their stories,
so well told here, bring this transformative era to life—they give
it flesh and bones.
*Kris Lane, College of William & Mary*
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