Contents
Guide to Related Topics ix
Preface xiii
Introduction xvii
Chronology xxiii
Abolition Movement 1
Abolition of Slavery 5
Abolition of the Slave Trade 9
Acadians 12
Acosta, José de (1540–1600) 14
Age of Revolution (1750s–1850s) 17
Algonquins 20
American Revolution (1775–1783) 23
Amsterdam 27
Angola 30
Arawaks 32
Atlantic Creoles 34
Atlantic Ocean 36
Atlantic Slave Trade 40
Azores 45
Aztec Empire 48
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561–1626) 53
Bahia 55
Barbados 58
Benin 60
Bermuda 63
Bight of Biafra 65
Black Atlantic 67
Black Legend 70
Bogotá 73
Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830) 75
Books 79
Bordeaux 82
Bourbon Reforms 84
Bradford, William (1590–1657) 86
Bradstreet, Anne (ca. 1612–1672) 89
Brazil 92
Brébeuf, St. Jean de (1593–1649) 95
British Atlantic 98
Buenos Aires 102
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
(ca. 1490–ca. 1559) 105
Cahokia 107
Canary Islands 111
Cape Verde Islands 113
Caribs 115
Cartagena de Indias 117
Cartography 119
Casta System 123
Catholic Women Religious
Missionaries 126
Champlain, Samuel de (1574–1635) 130
Chickasaws 133
Chocolate 136
Choctaws 138
Code Noir 141
Coffee 143
Colonization Movement 146
Columbian Exchange 149
Columbus, Christopher
(ca. 1451–1506) 152
Conquistadors 156
Cortés, Hernán (1485–1547) 160
Cotton 163
Coureurs de Bois 167
Creek Indians 169
Cuba 172
Dampier, William (ca. 1651–1715) 175
Darwin, Charles (1809–1882) 177
Declaration of Independence (1776) 180
Declaration of the Rights of Man
and of the Citizen (1789) 185
De Soto, Hernando (ca. 1496–1542) 189
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
(ca. 1490s–1584) 192
Disease 194
Doña Marina (ca. 1502–ca. 1527) 197
Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895) 200
Drake, Sir Francis (ca. 1540–1596) 203
Dutch Atlantic 206
