American South and the Atlantic World.

By: Ward, BrianContributor(s): Bone, Martyn | Link, William AMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813048338Subject(s): African Americans - Southern States - Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: American South and the Atlantic WorldDDC classification: 305.800975 LOC classification: E185 -- .A477 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- The American South and the Atlantic World -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Understanding the South -- Introduction -- 1. Caryl Phillips, David Armitage, and the Place of the American South in Atlantic and Other Worlds -- 2. Early Southern Religions in a Global Age -- 3. "A Most Unfortunate Divel . . . without the Prospect of Getting Anything": A Virginia Planter Negotiates the Late Stuart Atlantic World -- 4. Revolutionary Refugees: Black Flight in the Age of Revolution -- 5. The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole de Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City -- 6. Ending with a Whimper, Not a Bang: The Relationship between Atlantic History and the Study of the Nineteenth-Century South -- 7. Was U.S. Emancipation Exceptional in the Atlantic, or Other Worlds? -- 8. The Textual Atlantic: Race, Time, and Representation in the Writings of AME Bishop Levi Jenkins Coppin -- 9. Whose "Folk" Are They Anyway? Zora Neale Hurston and Lady Augusta Gregory in the Atlantic World -- 10. Princess Laura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience -- 11. Dish-Washing in the Sea of Ndayaan: What We Make of Our Souths in Atlantic World Initiation -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Most of the research on the South ties the region to the North, emphasizing racial binaries and outdated geographical boundaries, but The American South and the Atlantic World seeks a larger context. Helping to define "New" Southern studies, this book?the first of its kind?explores how the cultures, contacts, and economies of the Atlantic World shaped the South.
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Cover -- The American South and the Atlantic World -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Understanding the South -- Introduction -- 1. Caryl Phillips, David Armitage, and the Place of the American South in Atlantic and Other Worlds -- 2. Early Southern Religions in a Global Age -- 3. "A Most Unfortunate Divel . . . without the Prospect of Getting Anything": A Virginia Planter Negotiates the Late Stuart Atlantic World -- 4. Revolutionary Refugees: Black Flight in the Age of Revolution -- 5. The Case of Jean Baptiste, un Créole de Saint-Domingue: Narrating Slavery, Freedom, and the Haitian Revolution in Baltimore City -- 6. Ending with a Whimper, Not a Bang: The Relationship between Atlantic History and the Study of the Nineteenth-Century South -- 7. Was U.S. Emancipation Exceptional in the Atlantic, or Other Worlds? -- 8. The Textual Atlantic: Race, Time, and Representation in the Writings of AME Bishop Levi Jenkins Coppin -- 9. Whose "Folk" Are They Anyway? Zora Neale Hurston and Lady Augusta Gregory in the Atlantic World -- 10. Princess Laura Kofey and the Reverse Atlantic Experience -- 11. Dish-Washing in the Sea of Ndayaan: What We Make of Our Souths in Atlantic World Initiation -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Most of the research on the South ties the region to the North, emphasizing racial binaries and outdated geographical boundaries, but The American South and the Atlantic World seeks a larger context. Helping to define "New" Southern studies, this book?the first of its kind?explores how the cultures, contacts, and economies of the Atlantic World shaped the South.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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