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A thoughtfully assembled collection of deeply researched and finely crafted essays, this book showcases what it takes to produce cutting-edge Atlantic World history. Important intersections and divergences in paths taken by two French colonial cities, spanning vast distance across time as well as space, are featured up-close through a rich array of methods and subjects.--Daniel H. Usner, author of American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette This is a conceptually ambitious Atlantic history that takes a looking glass approach to illuminate the trajectories of two port cities/slave societies in West Africa and North America. France provided the point in common and the starting point, but the beauty and the importance of this volume is that the French empire, while remaining tethered to these explorations of Saint-Louis and New Orleans, recedes from the foreground. It is a dazzling model for approaching the inherent challenges--and the pay-off--of conducting comparative history.--Sophie White, author of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana An invaluable, unusual book born from careful, well-organized, sustained collaboration among leading scholars from Senegal, France, the United States, and Canada. It helps put Africa into African-Atlantic Studies.--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links

A thoughtfully assembled collection of deeply researched and finely crafted essays, this book showcases what it takes to produce cutting-edge Atlantic World history. Important intersections and divergences in paths taken by two French colonial cities, spanning vast distance across time as well as space, are featured up-close through a rich array of methods and subjects.--Daniel H. Usner, author of American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette An invaluable, unusual book born from careful, well-organized, sustained collaboration among leading scholars from Senegal, France, the United States, and Canada. It helps put Africa into African-Atlantic Studies.--Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links This is a conceptually ambitious Atlantic history that takes a looking glass approach to illuminate the trajectories of two port cities/slave societies in West Africa and North America. France provided the point in common and the starting point, but the beauty and the importance of this volume is that the French empire, while remaining tethered to these explorations of Saint-Louis and New Orleans, recedes from the foreground. It is a dazzling model for approaching the inherent challenges--and the pay-off--of conducting comparative history.--Sophie White, author of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

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Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in Colonial American History at Tulane University and the author of five books, including Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727- 1834 and The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Ibrahima Thioub is professor of history at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and associate fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes, France. He founded and leads the Centre Africain de Recherches sur les Traites et les Esclavages (CARTE) at Dakar. Cécile Vidal is directrice d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She coauthored, with Gilles Havard, Histoire de l'Amérique française and has edited numerous collected works, including Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World. Her latest monograph is Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.

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