Biography and the Black Atlantic

Biography and the Black Atlantic

Book cover
Editor	Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet
Language	English
Series	The Early Modern Americas
Subject	Atlantic history
Genre	Non-fiction, history
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date	2013
Pages	384
ISBN	978-0812245462
Website	University of Pennsylvania Press

Biography and the Black Atlantic is a book edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet and published in 2013 by University of Pennsylvania Press. The work examines biographies and autobiographies of African-descended individuals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; by examining these narratives, they shed personal insight into slavery and the African diaspora.

Academic journal reviews

• Alexander, William H. "Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet, eds., Biography and the Black Atlantic". The Journal of African American History. 100 (3): 522–525. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.3.0522.
• Bollettino, Maria Alessandra (2014). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic, Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet". The Journal of American History. 101 (3): 912–913. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau533. JSTOR 44286342.
• Fogleman, Aaron Spencer (2015). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic. (Early Modern Americas), Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet". The American Historical Review. 120 (5): 1856–1857. doi:10.1093/ahr/120.5.1856a. JSTOR 43697091.
• Fortin, Jeffrey A. (2014). "Atlantic Lives, Atlantic Sources". The Journal of African History. 55 (3): 500–501. doi:10.1017/S0021853714000474. JSTOR 43305223.
• Gould, Philip (2015). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic, LISA A. LINDSAY, JOHN WOOD SWEET". Early American Literature. 50 (1): 244–248. doi:10.1353/eal.2015.0017. JSTOR 24476624.
• Greene, Sandra E. (2015). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic, Lisa Lindsay, John Wood Sweet". African Studies Review. 58 (1): 259–261. doi:10.1017/asr.2015.20. JSTOR 43905022.
• Lovejoy, Paul E. (2015). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic, Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 45 (4): 606–607. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_00787. JSTOR 43829705.
• Sidbury, James; Lindsay, Lisa A.; Sweet, John Wood (2016). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic, LindsayLisa A., SweetJohn Wood". Nwig: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 90 (3/4): 313–314. doi:10.1163/22134360-09003013. JSTOR 26552024.
• West, Elizabeth J. (2016). "Reviewed work: Biography and the Black Atlantic, Lisa A. Lindsay, John Wood Sweet". The Americas. 73 (2): 260–262. doi:10.1017/tam.2016.41. JSTOR 43897487.

Publication history

• 2013, Hardcover edition.

See also

• Atlantic history
• Atlantic slave trade
• Atlantic slave trade to Brazil
• Slavery in the United States

External links

• Lindsay, L. A., Sweet, J. W., eds. (December 31, 2014). Biography and the Black Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.9783/9780812208702. ISBN 978-0-8122-4546-2.
• Biography and the Black Atlantic, University of Pennsylvania Press
• Biography and the Black Atlantic, Google Books
• Biography and the Black Atlantic, Worldcat