Books
“At once detailed and sweeping . . . . the best application yet to early American history of postcolonial theory.”
—American Historical Review
“This superb study explores the origins of that ironic definition of democracy as ‘universal freedom and racial inequality’. … Sophisticated and engaging …. Highly recommended.”
—Choice
Frederick Douglass Prize finalist.
“Important reading for all students of the early modern American and Atlantic Worlds.”
—Journal of American History
In this collection, leading historians and literary scholars reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.
Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey, and the Native federations of North America all played a role in the Virginia Company in London and English settlers on the ground.
“A splendid collection from luminaries in the field of Atlantic history, Biography and the Black Atlantic …will thoroughly recast our understanding of the modern Atlantic World.”
—James Sweet, Univ. of Wisconsin
From the woman of Fulani origin who made her way from Revolutionary Haiti to Louisiana to the free Black American who sailed for Liberia and the former captive from Brazil who became a major slaver in Angola, the stories recounted here evoke the struggle for self-determination and community at the heart of the modern condition.