William Boelhower is currently Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of Atlantic Studies at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He is a co-editor of the journal Atlantic Studies and co-editor of the Routledge Atlantic Studies book series.

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• Section 1 1. Introduction William Boelhower 2. Unheralded Contributions Across the Atlantic World Jay D. Edwards 3. Meaning of Water in the American South: Transatlantic Encounters Craig E. Colten 4. Greater Louisiana Connections and Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in an Atlantic Time-Geographic Perspective Kent Mathewson 5. White Lies: Human Property and Domestic Slavery Aboard the Slave Ship 'Creole' Walter Johnson 6. Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean Adam Rothman 7. History from Below the Water Line: Sharks and the Atlantic Slave Trade Marcus Rediker Section 2 8. Introduction William Boelhower 9. Locating the Isle of Orleans: Atlantic and American Historiographical Perspectives Mark L. Thompson 10. Slave Trade Merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803: Clarifying the Colonial Slave Trade to Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective Douglas B. Chambers 11. ‘Keep Alive the Powers of Africa’: Katherine Dunham, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren, and the circum-Caribbean Culture of Vodoun Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 12. Placing Louisiana in the Francophone World: Opportunities and Challenges Alexander B. Murphy 13. (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method and Meaning Andrew Sluyter

William Boelhower is currently Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of Atlantic Studies at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He is a co-editor of the journal Atlantic Studies and co-editor of the Routledge Atlantic Studies book series.

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• Section 1 1. Introduction William Boelhower 2. Unheralded Contributions Across the Atlantic World Jay D. Edwards 3. Meaning of Water in the American South: Transatlantic Encounters Craig E. Colten 4. Greater Louisiana Connections and Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in an Atlantic Time-Geographic Perspective Kent Mathewson 5. White Lies: Human Property and Domestic Slavery Aboard the Slave Ship 'Creole' Walter Johnson 6. Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean Adam Rothman 7. History from Below the Water Line: Sharks and the Atlantic Slave Trade Marcus Rediker Section 2 8. Introduction William Boelhower 9. Locating the Isle of Orleans: Atlantic and American Historiographical Perspectives Mark L. Thompson 10. Slave Trade Merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803: Clarifying the Colonial Slave Trade to Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective Douglas B. Chambers 11. ‘Keep Alive the Powers of Africa’: Katherine Dunham, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren, and the circum-Caribbean Culture of Vodoun Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 12. Placing Louisiana in the Francophone World: Opportunities and Challenges Alexander B. Murphy 13. (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method and Meaning Andrew Sluyter

William Boelhower is currently Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of Atlantic Studies at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He is a co-editor of the journal Atlantic Studies and co-editor of the Routledge Atlantic Studies book series.

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• Section 1 1. Introduction William Boelhower 2. Unheralded Contributions Across the Atlantic World Jay D. Edwards 3. Meaning of Water in the American South: Transatlantic Encounters Craig E. Colten 4. Greater Louisiana Connections and Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in an Atlantic Time-Geographic Perspective Kent Mathewson 5. White Lies: Human Property and Domestic Slavery Aboard the Slave Ship 'Creole' Walter Johnson 6. Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans and the Caribbean Adam Rothman 7. History from Below the Water Line: Sharks and the Atlantic Slave Trade Marcus Rediker Section 2 8. Introduction William Boelhower 9. Locating the Isle of Orleans: Atlantic and American Historiographical Perspectives Mark L. Thompson 10. Slave Trade Merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803: Clarifying the Colonial Slave Trade to Louisiana in Atlantic Perspective Douglas B. Chambers 11. ‘Keep Alive the Powers of Africa’: Katherine Dunham, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren, and the circum-Caribbean Culture of Vodoun Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 12. Placing Louisiana in the Francophone World: Opportunities and Challenges Alexander B. Murphy 13. (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method and Meaning Andrew Sluyter