Excerpts
Preface
“[These objects] form the basis for what today is an understudied art form…that encapsulated an early modern history of trans-oceanic movement and creativity...[and] provides...largely unimpeded access to the inner lives..of marginalized persons.”
—Matthew Francis Rarey
Introduction
“Coquilla nut snuff boxes and bottles act as a magnifying glass, focusing our gaze on the profound cultural shifts and exchanges that define the early modern Atlantic…shattering conventional narratives.”
—Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Map of Slave Voyages
Regions of trade for slave voyages established in Salvador da Bahia, 1642-1807. During most of the 17th and 18th centuries, more slave voyages were organized at the port of Salvador da Bahia than at any other Atlantic port. (Source: David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New Have: Yale University Press, 2010).
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