Gain Origins Of The Black Atlantic Illustrated By Laurent M. Dubois Expressed As E-Text

collections of essays reclaims the term "revisionism" from the epithet status it's been granted by certain elements, If a story is incomplete or incorrect, it is in need of revision, "Origins" thus disputes the widely held presumption that Black peoples were simply acted upon in Atlantic history, On the contrary, Dubois presents various examples of the ways in which Black Africans and Creoles formed and asserted their identity and even shaped policy.
Betweenand, about twothirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans, With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans.
The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations, and their labor was the foundation for the expansion of the Atlantic economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.


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relatively recently, comparatively little attention was paid to the perspectives, daily experiences, hopes, and especially the political ideas of the enslaved who played such a central role in the making of the Atlantic world.
Over the past decades, however, huge strides have been made in the study of the history of slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world.
This collection brings together some of the key contributions to this growing body of scholarship, showing a range of methodological approaches, that can be used to understand and reconstruct the lives of these enslaved people.
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