Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora - (Black Atlantic) by Paul E Lovejoy & David V Trotman (Hardcover)

About the Book

This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of the major historical phenomena of the modern era.

Book Synopsis

This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of the major historical phenomena of the modern era.

About the Author

Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University, holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes on the African diaspora. David V. Trotman is Associate Professor of History and Humanities and Associate Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University. He received his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and most recently, he is author of Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (with Gad Heuman).