What is Atlantic history?
Into the Atlantic crucible: An early Portuguese encounter with West Africans ; First impressions in South America ; An Indian perspective on the European's arrival in North America
The Columbian exchange: An Elizabethan scientist admires Indian agriculture ; The exchange of furs and microbes in New France ; A military officer contemplates life in a beaver lodge
Captivity and conversion : religion and the European-Indian encounter: A French missionary's captivity among the Mohawks ; A Pennsylvania woman's adoption into an Indian family ; A Christian Indian challenges his colonial mentor
West Africa and the Atlantic slave trade: A African experiences enslavement ; A European describes a slave-trading post
The plantation complex in the Caribbean: Servants, slaves, and masters in Barbados ; A description of African Maroon communities
Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas: Two views of the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, 1680 ; A description of plantation society in Portuguese Brazil
The Dutch, French, and English in North America: A Dutch traveler in New Netherland/New York, 1679-1680 ; A French military officer describes the Indians of Canada, 1757 ; Benjamin Franklin calculates the population of British North America
The wooden world, maritime labor and piracy: A Dutch pirate in the seveteenth-century Caribbean ; A AFrican's seafaring odyssey in the Atlantic world ; A woman's perception of life on a whaling ship
The Atlantic highway, European migrations: A German warns his countrymen abouth the perils of migration ; A French account of a passage to Canada ; Two Scottish opinions on the emigration experience
Constructing gender in the Atlantic world: A French nun remarks on Native American women ; Moravian women's spiritual autobiographies ; A Scottish woman's impression of gender relations in the British West Indies and North Carolina
Enlightenment and revolution: A French expatriate describes colonial society in British North America ; A transatlantic revolutionary's attack on monarchy and aristocracy ; A Creole revolutionary's vision for the future of Spanish America
Out of the Atlantic crucible: A German traveler describes the race-based social order of Mexico ; A French traveler considers the future of race relations in the United States of America ; A Free Black's incendiary call for the destruction of slavery.
