Human Tradition in the Atlantic World 1500-1850

This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to 1850 <I>The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World 1500-1850</I> explores transatlantic connections by following individuals-be they slaves traders or adventurers-whose experience took them far beyond their local communities to new and unfamiliar places. Whatever their reasons tremendous creativity and dynamism resulted from contact between people of different cultures classes races ideas and systems in Africa Europe and the Americas. By emphasizing movement and circulation in its choice of life stories this readable and engaging volume presents a broad cross-section of people-both famous and everyday-whose lives and livelihoods took them across the Atlantic and brought disparate cultures into contact.