The American South and the Atlantic World
The American South and the Atlantic World
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Abstract
This volume showcases, but also interrogates, the value of Atlantic World approaches to the histories and cultures of the American South. Challenging the traditional chronological focus of most Atlantic history on the Early Modern period, the volume ranges from colonial times to the modern era, while thematically it embraces a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to topics such as economics, migration, religion, revolution, law, slavery, race relations, emancipation, gender, literature, performance, visual culture, memoir, ethnography, empires, nations, and historiography. Geographically, the chapters focus mainly on the southern region of the North American continent and the lands in and around the Atlantic Ocean-although the physical location of a putative “Atlantic World” and, for that matter, of something we can call an “American South” are among the definitional issues with which the volume wrestles. Ultimately, the value of any grand concept such as Atlantic History, or Atlantic Studies, or the Black Atlantic depends on its capacity to explain past or present social realities. The cumulative effect of the mix of case studies and state-of-the-field essays gathered in this volume is to affirm that there is much to be learned about both the American South and the Atlantic World by considering them together and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the fields of American, southern, and Atlantic Studies.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Brian Ward
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Caryl Phillips, David Armitage, and the Place of the American South in Atlantic and Other Worlds
Brian Ward
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Early Southern Religions in a Global Age
Jon Sensbach
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“A Most Unfortunate Divel … without the Prospect of Getting Anything”: A Virginia Planter Negotiates the Late Stuart Atlantic World
Natalie Zacek
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Revolutionary Refugees: Black Flight in the Age of Revolution
Jennifer K. Snyder
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The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole de Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City
Martha S. Jones
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Ending with a Whimper, Not a Bang: The Relationship between Atlantic History and the Study of the Nineteenth-Century South
Trevor Burnard
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Was U.S. Emancipation Exceptional in the Atlantic, or Other Worlds?
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
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The Textual Atlantic: Race, Time, and Representation in the Writings of AME Bishop Levi Jenkins Coppin
Leigh Anne Duck
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Whose “Folk” Are They Anyway? Zora Neale Hurston and Lady Augusta Gregory in the Atlantic World
Kathleen M. Gough
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Princess Laura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience
Natanya Keisha Duncan
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Dish-Washing in the Sea of Ndayaan: What We Make of Our Souths in Atlantic World Initiation
Keith Cartwright
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End Matter
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