Biography and the Black Atlantic

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The purported “personal turn” in the “Dark Atlantic”— during its agonizingly long opening period of slave exchanging and subjugation—is a historiographical advance that I find as significant as the “quantitative turn, “1 the broad re-search of skillet disciplinary extents 50 years back that produced the grant that has now peaked in the dispatch of the Voyages database.2 obviously, no decent deed goes unpunished.