Assumed identities : the meanings of race in the Atlantic world /

Assumed identities : the meanings of race in the Atlantic world /

Show other versions (1)
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Garrigus, John D., Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 41.
Subjects:
Group identity > America > History.
Eurocentrism > America > History.
Nationalism > America > History.
Ethnic relations > Religious aspects > History > 17th century.
Slave trade > Brazil > History > 19th century.
America > Race relations > History.
Haiti > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804.
Virginia > Ethnic relations > History > 17th century.
West Indies, British > Ethnic relations > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: race and identity in the new world / Franklin W. Knight
  • "Thy coming fame, Ogé! is sure": new evidence on Ogé's 1790 revolt and the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution / John D. Garrigus
  • "The child should be made a Christian": baptism, race, and identity in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Rebecca Goetz
  • West Indian identity in the eighteenth century / Trevor Burnard
  • Illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil / Sidney Chalhoub
  • Rosalie of the Poulard nation: freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian Revolution / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard
  • In memoriam, Evan Anders.