Introduction: People in the making of the Black Atlantic / Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Karen Racine
Alonso de Illescas (1530s?-1590s) : African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in colonial Ecuador / Charles Beatty Medina
Gregoria López (1680s) : a Mexican mulata defends her honor / Aaron P. Althouse
Philip Quaque (1741-1816) : African Anglican missionary on the Gold Coast / Ty M. Reese
Harry Washington (1760s-1790s) : a Founding Father's slave / Cassandra Pybus
Rufino José Maria (1820s-1850s) : a Muslim in the nineteenth-century Brazilian slave trade circuit / João Jośe Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, and Marcus J.M. de Carvalho
Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s-1872) : African slave, head of a household, and lottery winner in Cuba / Aisnara Perera Díaz and María de los Ángeles Meriño Fuentes
Blaise Diagne (1872-1934) : Senegal's deputy to the French National Assembly / Hilary Jones
Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s) : Caribbean migrant worker deported from the United States / Lorna Biddle Rinear
C.L.R. James (1901-1989) : the Black Jacobin / Jerome Teelucksingh
Robert Robinson (1930s) : celebrity worker in the USSR / Meredith L. Roman
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889-1981) : the Angolan tradition of capoeira / Maya Talmon-Chvaicer
Malcolm X (1925?-1965) : a Pan-African revolutionary / Alan Bloom
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) : artist, intellectual, activist / Sally Price and Richard Price.
The human tradition in the black Atlantic, 1500-2000. ISBN 9780742567313. Published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.