Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, by Ana Lucia Araujo

according to cutting edge and broad study, this edited quantity examines the complicated and particular human, cultural, and non secular exchanges that resulted from the enslavement and the exchange of Africans within the North and the South Atlantic areas through the period of the transatlantic slave alternate. The booklet exhibits the connections among a number of Atlantic worlds that include designated and numerous features. The Atlantic slave exchange disrupted African societies, households, and family teams. alongside the trails of the slave alternate, males, girls and youngsters have been imprisoned, separated, raped, and killed through warfare, famine and disorder. The authors examine a number of the various pathways, no matter if actual and geographical or highbrow and metaphorical, that arose over the centuries in numerous components of the Atlantic global in keeping with the slave alternate and slavery. Highlighting distinct and related points, this groundbreaking e-book follows the trajectories of people, teams, and pictures, rethinking their family with the neighborhood, and the Atlantic contexts. even supposing now not neglecting statistic information, the quantity specializes in the flow of teams and participants in addition to the cultural, inventive and spiritual transfers deriving from the Atlantic slave exchange. Privileging multidirectional and transnational ways, the authors examine areas and teams often underrepresented in Atlantic scholarship. a number of the chapters reconsider the result of the transatlantic slave exchange interactions that gave delivery to combined teams, cultures, and creative varieties on each side of the Atlantic Ocean. a few chapters study the trajectories of North american citizens who fought opposed to slavery, in addition to these ancient actors who benefited from the exchange through promoting and purchasing enslaved humans. different chapters examine the lives of enslaved Africans and folks of African descent, as a way to know how those studies are delivered to the current and reinterpreted by way of the later generations via visible arts and movie. As a couple of individuals incorporated during this quantity argue, the exchanges that resulted from the circulation of peoples, items, principles, mentalities, tastes, and photographs and their legacies didn't cease with the tip of the Atlantic slave exchange and slavery, yet stay the item of constant transformation, model, and reinvention. hard the existing Atlantic global scholarship that sometimes privileges financial exchanges and demographic facts, the ebook illuminates the a number of reviews of African and African-descended female and male old actors within the North and the South Atlantic areas. a few of the paths of the slave alternate explored within the varied chapters of this e-book make clear the trajectories and representations of African participants and their descendants within the Atlantic basin and past. even though the sufferers are not any longer alive to relate their studies, a number of the authors test, even if the resources are scarce, to retrace the slaving paths of the female and male sufferers, permitting us to determine the improvement of a number of Atlantic person and collective encounters and interactions. finally, a few participants express that those members and teams who have been pressured into diverse pathways, occasionally have been capable of negotiate, to make offerings, and seal a variety of different types of alliances, dealing with the demanding situations imposed via the Atlantic slave exchange brutal dynamics. this can be a huge e-book for collections in slavery stories, Atlantic historical past, historical past of the U.S., Latin American and Caribbean heritage, African experiences and African Diaspora.