The American South and the Atlantic World

Brian Ward, Martyn Bone, William A. Link

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813048338
• Subtopic: Historical Theory & Criticism
• Index: History

Most of the research on the South ties the region to the North, emphasizing racial binaries and outdated geographical boundaries, but The American South and the Atlantic World seeks a larger context.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.

Table of 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