UGA Press-Series

Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History.

Emphasizing comparative and transnational approaches, Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 focuses on the development of, and challenges to, racialized inequality in Atlantic culture, with a particular focus on the Americas. Books in the series explore the evolving meanings of race, slavery, and nation; African identity formation across the Atlantic world; and struggles over emancipation and its aftermath.

Richard S. Newman is a professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, and a coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of African American Protest Writing, 1790–1860.

Patrick Rael, an associate professor of history at Bowdoin College, is the author of Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and a coeditor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of African American Protest Writing, 1790–1860.

Manisha Sinha is an associate professor of African American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. She is a coeditor of African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-first Century.

Books in this series

African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry
The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Edited by Philip Morgan

Almost Free
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Eva Sheppard Wolf

The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader
Kari J. Winter

Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1740
Nicholas M. Beasley

Contentious Liberties
American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
Gale L. Kenny

The Hanging of Angélique
The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal
Afua Cooper

The Horrible Gift of Freedom
Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation
Marcus Wood

In Search of Brightest Africa
Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884–1936
Jeannette Eileen Jones

The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary
Edited by Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese

Missing Links
The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
Jeremy Rich

We Are the Revolutionists
German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
Mischa Honeck

Editorial Advisory Board

Edward Baptist
Cornell University

Christopher Brown
Columbia University

Vincent Carretta
University of Maryland

Laurent Dubois
Duke University

Erica Armstrong Dunbar
University of Delaware and the
Library Company of Philadelphia

Douglas Egerton
LeMoyne College

Leslie Harris
Emory University

Joanne Pope Melish
University of Kentucky

Sue Peabody
Washington State University, Vancouver

Erik Seeman
State University of New York, Buffalo

John Stauffer
Harvard University