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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: What Is Atlantic History? | |
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| Into the Atlantic Crucible | |
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| An Early Portuguese Encounter with West Africans | |
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| First Impressions in South America | |
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| An Indian Perspective on the Europeans' Arrival in North America | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| An Elizabethan Scientist Admires Indian Agriculture | |
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| The Exchange of Furs and Microbes in New France | |
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| A Military Officer Contemplates Life in a Beaver Lodge | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Captivity and Conversion: Religion and the European-Indian Encounter | |
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| A French Missionary's Captivity Among the Mohawks | |
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| A Pennsylvania Woman's Adoption into an Indian Family | |
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| A Christian Indian Challenges His Colonial Mentor | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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| An African Experiences Enslavement | |
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| A European Describes a Slave-Trading Post | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Plantation Complex in the Caribbean | |
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| Servants, Slaves, and Masters in Barbados | |
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| A Description of African Maroon Communities | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas | |
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| Two Views of the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, 1680 | |
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| A Description of Plantation Society in Portuguese Brazil | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Dutch, French, and English in North America | |
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| A Dutch Traveler in New Netherland/New York, 1679-1680 | |
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| A French Military Officer Describes the Indians of Canada, 1757 | |
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| Benjamin Franklin Calculates the Population of British North America | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| The Wooden World: Maritime Labor and Piracy | |
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| A Dutch Pirate in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | |
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| An African's Seafaring Odyssey in the Atlantic World | |
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| A Woman's Perception of Life on a Whaling Ship | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Atlantic Highway: European Migrations | |
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| A German Warns His Countrymen About the Perils of Migration | |
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| A French Account of a Passage to Canada | |
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| Two Scottish Opinions on the Emigration Experience | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Constructing Gender in the Atlantic World | |
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| A French Nun Remarks on Native American Women | |
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| Moravian Women's Spiritual Autobiographies | |
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| A Scottish Woman's Impressions of Gender Relations in the British West Indies and North Carolina | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Enlightenment and Revolution | |
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| A French Expatriate Describes Colonial Society in British North America | |
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| A Transatlantic Revolutionary's Attack on Monarchy and Aristocracy | |
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| A Creole Revolutionary's Vision for the Future of Spanish America | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Out of the Atlantic Crucible | |
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| A German Traveler Describes the Race-Based Social Order of Mexico | |
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| A French Traveler Considers the Future of Race Relations in the United States of America | |
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| A Free Black's Incendiary Call for the Destruction of Slavery | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggested Readings | |