Table of Contents
Preface
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
