1st Edition
Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World New Sources and New Findings
Introduction: New Sources and New Findings for Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World Jane Landers
1. ‘The Kingdom of Angola is not Very Far from Here’: The South Atlantic Slave Port of Buenos Aires, 1585–1640 Kara D. Schultz
2. The Seventeenth-century Slave Trade in the Documents of the English, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Prussian Royal Slave Trading Companies Angela Sutton
3. Sailing Through the Sacraments: Ethnic and Cultural Geographies of a Port and Its Churches-Cartagena de Indias Renée Soulodre-La France
4. Heathens among the Flock: Converting African-Born Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Mariza de Carvalho Soares
5. Catholic Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Jane Landers
6. Making Abolition Brazilian: British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco Courtney J. Campbell
Biography
Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, and Director of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies website (Vanderbilt.edu/esss). She is the author of several books, including Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (2010) and Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999).
