John Wood Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1111154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wood Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Wood |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0934-1296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Tory’s Wife
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
Black Cosmopolitans
Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution. By Christine Levecq. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xii, 289 pp. $45.00.) John Wood Sweet John Wood Sweet University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Intimate Bonds
June 01 2017 Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. By Jennifer L.Palmer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 280. $45.00 cloth; $45.00 ebook.) John Sweet John Sweet John Sweet is associate professor of early American history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the author of Bodies Politic: Colonialism, Race, and the Eme…
Unfreedom
Florence Hall's ‘Memoirs’
This essay presents the previously unpublished ‘Memoirs’ of Florence Hall, an African-born woman enslaved in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. The brief text describes Hall's childhood in Igboland (now southeastern Nigeria), her enslavement and journey to the Atlantic coast, her experience of the Middle Passage, and her arrival in Jamaica. There, the narrative abruptly cuts off. Evidently, the pages containing the rest of her story were lost. The…
Empowering Words
Journal Article Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America Get access Karen A. Weyler. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. xvi, 311 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1258–1259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav154 Published: 01 March 2015
Biography and the Black Atlantic
Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic PART I. PARAMETERS Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn -Joseph C. Miller Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa -Martin Klein Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History -Sheryl Kroen PART II. MOBILITY Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography -Jon Sensbach Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window…
The Subject of the Slave Trade
The two hundredth anniversaries of the British and U.S. abolition acts have coincided with a surge of new scholarship on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. This essay surveys recent work and considers the benefits and limitations of approaching the slave trade through several common frameworks: the Atlantic, Great Britain, and Western Africa. Historians of the Atlantic—including the editors of the newly revised Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database—em…
Envisioning an English Empire
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
In this collection, Robert Olwell and Alan Tully offer a sampling of new work on the interplay between “centrifugal” forces that caused colonial societies to adapt to their particular environments and contexts and “centripetal” forces that pulled them back toward the metropolis (p. 11). Of course, that formulation evokes the model of colonial development articulated by Jack P. Greene in Pursuits of Happiness (1988), a model this volume seeks to r…
Envisioning an English Empire
Foreword Introduction: Sea Changes 1 The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia 2 Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England 3 John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics 4 The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne's Letters Home 5 The Specter of Spain in John Smith's Colonial Writing 6 The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True travels 7 England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval 8…
The Indians' New England
Black Cosmopolitans
Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution. By Christine Levecq. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xii, 289 pp. $45.00.) John Wood Sweet John Wood Sweet University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Florence Hall's ‘Memoirs’
This essay presents the previously unpublished ‘Memoirs’ of Florence Hall, an African-born woman enslaved in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. The brief text describes Hall's childhood in Igboland (now southeastern Nigeria), her enslavement and journey to the Atlantic coast, her experience of the Middle Passage, and her arrival in Jamaica. There, the narrative abruptly cuts off. Evidently, the pages containing the rest of her story were lost. The…
The Subject of the Slave Trade
The two hundredth anniversaries of the British and U.S. abolition acts have coincided with a surge of new scholarship on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. This essay surveys recent work and considers the benefits and limitations of approaching the slave trade through several common frameworks: the Atlantic, Great Britain, and Western Africa. Historians of the Atlantic—including the editors of the newly revised Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database—em…
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
In this collection, Robert Olwell and Alan Tully offer a sampling of new work on the interplay between “centrifugal” forces that caused colonial societies to adapt to their particular environments and contexts and “centripetal” forces that pulled them back toward the metropolis (p. 11). Of course, that formulation evokes the model of colonial development articulated by Jack P. Greene in Pursuits of Happiness (1988), a model this volume seeks to r…
The Indians' New England
Envisioning an English Empire
Foreword Introduction: Sea Changes 1 The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia 2 Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England 3 John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics 4 The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne's Letters Home 5 The Specter of Spain in John Smith's Colonial Writing 6 The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True travels 7 England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval 8…
Envisioning an English Empire
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
In this collection, Robert Olwell and Alan Tully offer a sampling of new work on the interplay between “centrifugal” forces that caused colonial societies to adapt to their particular environments and contexts and “centripetal” forces that pulled them back toward the metropolis (p. 11). Of course, that formulation evokes the model of colonial development articulated by Jack P. Greene in Pursuits of Happiness (1988), a model this volume seeks to r…
The Subject of the Slave Trade
The two hundredth anniversaries of the British and U.S. abolition acts have coincided with a surge of new scholarship on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. This essay surveys recent work and considers the benefits and limitations of approaching the slave trade through several common frameworks: the Atlantic, Great Britain, and Western Africa. Historians of the Atlantic—including the editors of the newly revised Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database—em…
Biography and the Black Atlantic
Introduction: Biography and the Black Atlantic PART I. PARAMETERS Chapter 1. A Historical Appreciation of the Biographical Turn -Joseph C. Miller Chapter 2. Understanding the Slave Experience in West Africa -Martin Klein Chapter 3. Robinson Charley: The Ideological Underpinnings of Atlantic History -Sheryl Kroen PART II. MOBILITY Chapter 4. Black Pearls: Writing Black Atlantic Women's Biography -Jon Sensbach Chapter 5. Recovered Lives as a Window…
Florence Hall's ‘Memoirs’
This essay presents the previously unpublished ‘Memoirs’ of Florence Hall, an African-born woman enslaved in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. The brief text describes Hall's childhood in Igboland (now southeastern Nigeria), her enslavement and journey to the Atlantic coast, her experience of the Middle Passage, and her arrival in Jamaica. There, the narrative abruptly cuts off. Evidently, the pages containing the rest of her story were lost. The…
Empowering Words
Journal Article Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America Get access Karen A. Weyler. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. xvi, 311 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1258–1259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav154 Published: 01 March 2015
Intimate Bonds
June 01 2017 Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. By Jennifer L.Palmer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 280. $45.00 cloth; $45.00 ebook.) John Sweet John Sweet John Sweet is associate professor of early American history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the author of Bodies Politic: Colonialism, Race, and the Eme…
Unfreedom
Black Cosmopolitans
Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution. By Christine Levecq. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xii, 289 pp. $45.00.) John Wood Sweet John Wood Sweet University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
The Tory’s Wife
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