Lisa A. Lindsay is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Captives as Commodities: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria and coeditor (with Stephan F. Miescher) of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa. John Wood Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 and coeditor (with Robert Appelbaum) of Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic
PART I. PARAMETERS
Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn
—Joseph C. Miller
Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa
—Martin Klein
Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History
—Sheryl Kroen
PART II. MOBILITY
Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography
—Jon Sensbach
Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family
—Cassandra Pybus
Chapter 6. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo
—João José Reis
PART III. SELF-FASHIONING
Chapter 7. David Dorr's Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe
— Lloyd Kramer
Chapter 8. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano
—Vincent Carretta
Chapter 9. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its "African" Ancestor
—Lisa Lindsay
PART IV. POLITICS
Chapter 10. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco Menéndez
—Jane Landers
Chapter 11. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence
—Roquinaldo Ferreira
Chapter 12. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
—Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel Hébrard
Afterword
—James Campbell
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet