Pub Date : 2021-07-14DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2020.1776978
Scott Zukowski
ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the literary reprints found in New York’s Freedom’s Journal (1827–1829), the first newspaper owned and operated exclusively by African Americans. It demonstrates that the Journal’s editors strategically used seemingly apolitical, nonracial, and often European reprints as subtle vehicles for engagement with the racial politics of the 1820s United States. In doing so, the essay provides a new perspective in the scholarly discourse of race and the gothic (a prominent genre of reprint in the Journal), and it contributes a new perspective of Freedom’s Journal role as a Black medium within a larger, circum-Atlantic network.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1952052
G. Pisarz-Ramírez
ABSTRACT The essay discusses the autobiographies of two Black writers, James Weldon Johnson and Evelio Grillo, both of whom grew up in Florida. While Johnson experienced his hometown Jacksonville in the 1870s and 1880s as a contact zone where Black American, Black Cuban, and other ethnic groups interacted on a daily basis, Grillo spent his childhood in the 1920s in a highly segregated part of Tampa. The essay explores both texts in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth century US expansionism to the Caribbean and Latin America, drawing on the field of archipelagic studies to highlight the impact of expansionism on the racial reterritorialization of Florida and on the changing mobility regimes affecting its Black and Latin populations. The autobiographies dramatize the different strategies both authors developed to negotiate these mobility regimes and their specific situations.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1948283
Thomas Mareite
ABSTRACT This article explores how the involvement of US citizens in projects of political revolution across the Caribbean threatened the geostrategic and economic interests of the United States in the region. In 1822, a revolutionary expedition led by a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Henri Louis Villaume de Ducoudray-Holstein, departed from the Atlantic seaboard to overthrow Spanish rule in Puerto Rico and to establish the so-called Republic of Boricua. The republican utopia nonetheless collapsed after Curaçao’s Dutch authorities arrested the expedition’s leaders. This article assesses the expedition’s geopolitical ramifications, highlighting how it exacerbated tensions between the US and the Spanish Empire. It also underscores the predicament of US officials, both in Washington and across the Caribbean, who sought to defend US geostrategic goals and the Union’s maritime trade, even while policing US participation to illicit activities in the Revolutionary Caribbean.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-29DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1948284
M. Barcia
ABSTRACT This article examines developments in the field of Atlantic History within the past two decades and through the prism of slavery studies and a number of close sub-fields. By paying attention to what Atlantic historians have achieved since the turn of the century, it discusses contributions and critiques in equal measure, highlighting the field’s place in wider global discussions. While probing a number of methodological challenges that are already being tackled by numerous Atlantic historians, this article also explores the potential obstacles that lay ahead and suggest possible ways to negotiate them successfully. Rather than offering yet another painstaking reconstruction of the birth and growth of Atlantic History, this piece focuses squarely on the field’s twenty-first century’s saga: past, present and future.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-25DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1913969
S. Campbell
ABSTRACT In 2007 several permanent museum galleries were created in England that discuss the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. This article critiques one recurring image within many of these sites: the diagrams of the slave trade triangle. Drawing on analyses of the slave trade by historians, from Eric Williams to recent contributions, as well as understanding of the behaviour of museum visitors, it appeals to museums for more complex diagrams to be included in future installations at public history sites. Methodologically, close analysis of current museum installations frames exploration of the historical complexities and geographic expanse of enslavement-associated commerce, a term coined within the article. Future diagrams reflecting these complications will more accurately represent historical scholarship and the importance of enslaved labour to global commerce, rather than understating this by focusing solely on the slave trade triangle.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-25DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1923387
Femi Euba
ABSTRACT The following is an edited excerpt of an interview that took place between playwright Femi Euba and Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka, moderated by theatre scholar Biodun Jeyifo. The conversation occurred at the conference, “Praise at the Crossroads: Cultural Intersections in Literary and Artistic Worlds,” celebrating the artistic and scholarly works of Femi Euba, held at Louisiana State University on 28 March 2014.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1923386
Edith Snook
ABSTRACT This essay examines the use of guaiacum and sassafras in the manuscript recipe collections of Grace Mildmay, Lady Mildmay (1552–1620). Although Milday is now a fairly well known seventeenth-century domestic medical practitioner, her recipes have not received significant scholarly attention. To trace the history of these two ingredients, which had great cachet in the early modern Atlantic world, the essay looks at the earliest European herbals, travel narratives, and medical texts that reported on the use of these plants as medicines by Taino and Timucua people in the Americas. The essay argues that when these ingredients appear in Mildmay's recipes, Indigenous knowledge remains the foundation for their use, persisting in the chopping, grating, and decocting techniques that the recipes detail. The English household emerges as a site in the Atlantic world where the violence of colonial contact intersects with the gendered hierarchies of knowledge framing English women’s medical practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1908083
J. Freeman
ABSTRACT The strategy of neutrality has long been referenced in terms of the Duchy of Courland’s dealings with its belligerent neighbours during the seventeenth century. This position was formed in response to Courland’s lack of agency and desire for greater independence amidst eastern Baltic power struggles. However, Courland’s activities were not limited to this locality, expanding under Duke Jakob (ruled 1642–1682) to continental trade and Atlantic colonialism. An investigation into the degree to which the dukes’ neutrality informed their wider activities will shed new light on the diversity of colonial approaches, alongside attitudes towards neutrality during the concept’s crystallisation.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2019.1710089
Francisco Javier Ramón Solans
ABSTRACT The unification of Italy is one the events of the nineteenth century which resonated within the international public sphere of the time. The religious dimension of these events contributed decisively to their internationalization. In this context, this essay will analyze the impact of the Roman Question in Latin America. I will examine how the Latin American faithful were informed of what was occurring in Italy, both from the pulpit and through the press. I will also show how descriptions of the situation of the pope sought to create empathy among the faithful, and to develop emotional bonds with the Holy See. Finally, this article studies the role of papal diplomacy, the prelates, and other local actors in the promotion of displays of solidarity with Pope Pius IX. The Roman Question contributed decisively to the diffusion of Ultramontanism in Latin America.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-02DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2021.1877048
P. von Gleich, Isabel Soto
ABSTRACT The introduction presents the key concerns and arguments of Critical Perspectives on Teju Cole. Introducing the essays of this volume, it offers insight into Cole’s genre-crossing oeuvre and its critical study. It also broadens the outlook of this project by pointing to areas for further research.
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