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 AtlanticPART I. PARAMETERSChapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn-Joseph C. MillerChapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa-Martin KleinChapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History-Sheryl KroenPART II. MOBILITYChapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography-Jon SensbachChapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family-Cassandra PybusChapter 6. From Slave to Wealthy African Freedman: The Story of Manoel Joaquim Ricardo-JoÃo JosÉ ReisPART III. SELF-FASHIONINGChapter 7. David Dorr's Journey Toward Selfhood in Europe- Lloyd KramerChapter 8. Methodology in the Making and Reception of Equiano-Vincent CarrettaChapter 9. Remembering His Country Marks: A Nigerian American Family and Its "African" Ancestor-Lisa LindsayPART IV. POLITICSChapter 10. The Atlantic Transformations of Francisco MenÉndez-Jane LandersChapter 11. Echoes of the Atlantic: Benguela (Angola) and Brazilian Independence-Roquinaldo FerreiraChapter 12. Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution-Rebecca Scott and Jean-Michel HÉbrardAfterword-James CampbellNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Scholars and students of the Black Atlantic, as well as those interested in biography, will be richly rewarded by reading this volume. The essays are uniformly excellent; the introduction and conclusions are superb." (African Studies Review) "A splendid collection from luminaries in the field of Atlantic history, Biography and the Black Atlantic charts a coherent path toward a collective biographical project that will thoroughly recast our understanding of the modern Atlantic world." (James Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison) "A fascinating and timely collection, written by some of the most important and outstanding scholars in Atlantic studies, which shows that the history of the Black Atlantic goes beyond the slave trade. Biography and the Black Atlantic allows us to reimagine how individuals negotiated this complex and evolving social, economic, and political space." (Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University)