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Smith, Cassander L. Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.
This book offers a socio-historical account of Black Africans in the early Atlantic world in the 16th and 17th centuries. The text asks how literary and archival sources mediated encounters between Black Africans and Spain in the early Americas. The work engages with constructions of race, trans Atlanticism, and early American and African American literature.
