Description
Book SynopsisAtlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections from a variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The fully revised and expanded second edition goes into even greater depth in exploring the diverse roles and experiences of women, Native Americans, and Africans, as well as the critical theme of emerging capitalism and New World slavery. New chapters also address captivity experiences, intercultural religious encounters, and interracial sexuality and marriage. With classroom-focused discussion questions and suggested additional readings accompanying each chapter, Atlantic Lives provides students with a wide-ranging introduction to the many voices and identities that comprised the Atlantic World.
Table of ContentsPreface
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: What Is Atlantic History?
Chapter 1: Into the Atlantic Crucible
Selection 1: An Early Portuguese Encounter with West Africans
Selection 2: First News of Native Americans in Europe
Selection 3: An Indian Perspective on the Europeans' Arrival in North America
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 2: The Columbian Exchange
Selection 1: An Elizabethan Scientist Admires Indian Agriculture
Selection 2: The Exchange of Furs and Microbes in New France
Selection 3: A Military Officer Contemplates Life in a Beaver Lodge
Selection 4: Black Philadelphians Face a Yellow Fever Epidemic
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 3: Captivities
Selection 1: A German Soldier Fears being Cannibalized by his Native American Captors
Selection 2: The Captivities of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Selection 3: A Pennsylvania Woman's Adoption into an Indian Family
Selection 4: An African-American Sailor’s Serial Captivities
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 4: Religion and Conversion
Selection 1: A Revolt among Mission Indians in New Mexico
Selection 2: Native American Converts in Seventeenth-Century Canada
Selection 3: A Christian Indian Challenges His Colonial Mentor
Selection 4: An African American’s Conversion Experience during the Great Awakening
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 5: West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Selection 1: A Scottish Explorer Describes Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
Selection 2: A European Describes a Slave-Trading Post
Selection 3: A Former Slave Remembers his Enslavement in Africa
Selection 4: A Surgeon Describes Conditions on a Slave Ship
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 6: The Plantation Complex in the Caribbean
Selection 1: Servants, Slaves, and Masters in Barbados
Selection 2: A Description of African Maroon Communities
Selection 3: A Former Slave Condemns the Inhumanity of Caribbean Slavery
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 7: The Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas
Selection 1: An English Traveler Explains the Repartimiento System in Spanish America
Selection 2: An Italian Priest Describes Social Relations in Mexico City
Selection 3: A Description of Plantation Society in Portuguese Brazil
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 8: The Dutch, French, and English in North America
Selection 1: An Dutch Traveler in New Netherland/New York, 1679-80
Selection 2: A French Military Officer Describes the Indians of Canada, 1757
Selection 3: Benjamin Franklin Calculates the Population of British North America
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 9: The Wooden World: Maritime Labor and Piracy
Selection 1: A Dutch Pirate in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Selection 2: A Pirate Faces Execution in Boston
Selection 3: An American Sailor Experiences Impressment in the British Navy
Selection 4: A Woman's Perception of Life on a Whaling Ship
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 10: The Atlantic Highway: European Migrations
Selection 1: An Englishman Enters into an Indenture
Selection 2: A German Migrant’s Passage to America
Selection 3: A French Account of a Passage to Canada
Selection 4: Two Scottish Opinions on the Emigration Experience
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 11: Interracial Marriage and Sexuality in the Atlantic World
Selection 1: A French Nun Remarks on Native American Women
Selection 2: A Scottish Woman’s Impressions of Gender and Sexual Relations in the British West Indies and North Carolina
Selection 3: Interracial Intimacy in the Fur Trade
Selection 4: An Interracial Marriage Causes Controversy in New England
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 12: Enlightenment and Revolution
Selection 1: A French Expatriate Describes Colonial Society in British North America
Selection 2: A Trans-Atlantic Revolutionary's Attack on Monarchy and Aristocracy
Selection 3: An Anti-Slavery Advocate Defends the Slave Rebels in Saint-Domingue
Selection 4: A Creole Revolutionary's Vision for the Future of Spanish America
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chapter 13: Out of the Atlantic Crucible
Selection 1: A German Traveler Describes the Race-Based Social Order of Mexico
Selection 2: A French Traveler Considers the Future of Race Relations in the United States of America
Selection 3: A Free Black's Incendiary Call for the Destruction of Slavery
Selection 4: A Native American Challenges the Pilgrim Story
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Chronology of Important Events in Atlantic World History
