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Crossings and Encounters The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Sponsored by the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World of the College of Charleston Crossings and Encounters Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World edited by Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry © 2020 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208 www.uscpress.com 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/. ISBN 978-1-64336-084-3 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-64336-085-0 (ebook) Front cover illustrations: West Indische Paskaert (1650). Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. Design by adam b. bohannon Contents Acknowledgments vii Foreword ix Sandra Slater Introduction 1 Stephen R. Berry “Our Dutchmen run after them very much”: Cross-Cultural Sex in New Netherland and the Dutch Global Empire 13 Deborah Hamer Las Casas de las Rabinas: Three Generations of Women in a Crypto-Jewish Family in Seventeenth-Century New Spain 30 Michele Mericle “The Refuse of the whole Creation”: Manhood, Misogyny, and Race in an Anglo-Caribbean Travel Narrative 46 Erika Gasser “Inhabitant of Saint-Domingue, today refugee in this place”: Atlantic Networks and the Contours of Migration among Free Women of Color during the Haitian Revolution 65 Elizabeth Neidenbach Intimate Entanglement in the Early Republic: The Gendered Politics of Nation- Building in Early America 85 Joshua L. Bearden Building Black Civic Manhood: The Luiz Gama Masonic Lodge and the Beneficent Society of Men of Color in São Paulo, Brazil, 1894–1914 111 Alicia L. Monroe Great Circle Sailing: Alice Bache Gould in San Juan, or, the Making of a Twentieth-Century Atlanticist 124 Laura R. Prieto White Noise? Desdemona and Transnational Voicings through Time 146 Tessa Roynon Notes 169 Bibliography 217 Contributors 221 Index 223 Acknowledgments Our thanks go first of all to Sandy Slater, who organized the annual conference on the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World at the College of Charleston that brought many of us together. Sandy provided wise counsel, unflagging en- couragement, and good humor every step of the way. We are also grateful for the intellectual generosity of colleagues—especially Richard Godbeer, John W. White, and Terri Snyder—who made insightful rec- ommendations on the shape that this essay collection might take. It was a delight working with the contributors to this project, and we feel fortunate that they were willing to share their research in a collaborative volume. At the University of South Carolina Press, Alex Moore, Linda Fogle, Jonathan Haupt, Simon Lewis, Richard Brown, and Ehren Foley have shown vast patience with our slow progress bringing the complete manuscript together. Our colleagues and students at Sim- mons University kept us motivated by asking about the book at appropriate junc- tures. Sarah Leonard, Zhigang Liu, Steve Ortega, Jess Parr, and Franny Sulli van make for the most genial, supportive History Department one could hope for. Laura Koch, our graduate assistant, provided scrupulous, sharp-eyed assistance at the formative stages, while Stephen Berry Jr. helped locate illustrations. As with any scholarly publication, the research in this book depended on the assiduous work of librarians and archivists from institutions across the Atlantic. The essays within made substantial use of collections from the Archives Natio- nales d’Outre Mer in Aix-en-Provence, the Archivo General de la Nación of Mex- ico, the Arquivo da Cúria Metropolitana de São Paulo, the Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo, the British Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Na- tionaal Archief of the Netherlands, the National Archives of the United States, the New Orleans Public Library, the New York State Archives, and the Notarial Archives Research Center in New Orleans. While we are unfortunately unable to name all of the individuals who contributed at each institution, the editors do want to single out some in particular. Amanda Strauss, Robin Wheelwright Ness, and Peter Harrington of the Brown University Libraries graciously gave us ac- cess to an elusive illustration; they truly embody the ethos of a research-centered institution. Sabina Beauchard at the Massachusetts Historical Society helped us secure permissions to materials there. We want to thank Mark Allan for sharing with us his lovely professional photographs from the Barbican’s production of viii Acknowledgments Desdemona. Mark Cook not only provided the volume with two beautiful maps but was a joy to work with during the project’s final stages. As always, we deeply appreciate how our respective families and friends sustain and support us. For every time they may have distracted us from our allotted writing and editing time, they have rescued us tenfold with their love. Foreword In this collection of essays, a variety of presentations, by established as well as burgeoning scholars, creates a sustained dialogue. This leads to wonderfully dy- namic and interesting conversations and debates. The mission of the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World (CLAW) Program is “to promote scholarship and public engagement with the history and culture of the Lowcountry region, the Atlantic World, and the connections be- tween the two.” A reflection of this mission, this collection brings together not just a wealth of detailed scholarship but also the variety of ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the Atlantic world. These essays encompass a va- riety of geographies, peoples, and events, yet all speak to the incredible diversity of experience. The myriad cultures and communities that contested space, identi- ties, and terrain reflect the continual exchange of ideas in the Atlantic world. The cross-cultural encounters dramatically altered conceptions of gender, sexuality, and the creation of racist and misogynistic regimes of power. I am especially proud of the interdisciplinary nature of these essays. Though most of the scholars represented here would identify as historians, these essays also incorporate literature, geography, migration patterns, family dynamics, re- ligion, and politics, not to mention studies of the multiplicities of identities. Yet through all the upheaval and exchange, the Atlantic Ocean remains omnipres- ent, touching shores, moving people, and undulating in the background as the mighty facilitator. The one constant is this body of water that serves as a canvas upon which these histories were painted, layer after layer, by the actors and events and then again by historians. One of the allures of studying the Atlantic is the paradox of its richness and depth viewed against its intangibility; the whole can never be grasped. However, these eight essays offer insight into that enigmatic history and call our attention to the complexities of these divergent lived experi- ences, bonded by water and change. Sandra Slater
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