Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century

This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world.

This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800. The last two cen

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial

This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism ov