To turn on a pivot: writing African Americans into a history of overlapping diasporas / Earl Lewis -- Slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world: reflections on the diasporan framework / Thomas C. Holt -- Hegemonic paradigms and the African world: striving to be free / Elliott P. Skinner -- Reform and revolution in American and South African freedom struggles / George Fredrickson -- European dimensions of the African diaspora: the definition of black racial identity / Allison Blakely -- Rethinking the African diaspora: a comparative look at race and identity in a transatlantic community, 1878-1921 / Dwayne E. Williams -- Abolition and the politics of identity in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora: toward a comparative approach / Kim D. Butler -- Creolization and integration: the development of a political culture among the Pan-Afro-Cuban benevolent societies, 1878-1895 / Philip A. Howard -- Free women entrepreneurs from the 1920s to the 1850s: the cases of Nancy Prince and Mary Seacole / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- A slandered people: views on "Negro Character" in the mainstream Christian churches in post-emancipation Jamaica / Robert Stewart -- Working the system: black slaves and the courts in Lima, Peru, 1821-1854 / Carlos Aguirre -- Out of Egypt: the migration of former slaves to the Midwest during the 1860s in comparative perspective / Michael P. Johnson -- Surviving slavery: marriage strategies and family formation patterns among the eighteenth-century Puerto Rican slave population / David M. Stark -- Jazz and the Cold War: black culture as an instrument of American foreign policy / Lisa E. Davenport -- Beyond power: paradigm subversion and reformulation and the re-creation of the early modern Atlantic world / Jack P. Greene -- With a rod of iron: Barbados slave laws as a model for Jamaica, South Carolina, and Antigua, 1661-1697 / David Barry Gaspar -- From slavery to freedom: emancipation and apprenticeship in Grenada and St. Vincent, 1834-1838 / Edward L. Cox -- Africa in a capitalist world / Frederick Cooper.