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What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography—or better, oceanography—of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading of transoceanic dislocations between Africa and the Caribbean? This article examines canonical African diaspora and queer theoretical texts in dialogue with recently published creative texts that imagine queer relationships between African kidnapees in slave ships' holds. These creative texts, I argue, more expansively theorize conceptual space both to rethink submerged sexual, racial histories and to comment on the intersections between African diaspora and queer experiences in a contemporary era of Haitian refugees, transnational Dominican laborers, and international West Indian "gay" activists. Texts examined include Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic (1993), Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1990), Ana-Maurine Lara's Erzulie's Skirt (2006), and Dionne Brand's Map to the Door of No Return (2001).

Part I. Atlantic sojourners -- Pierre Biard: priest and pirate of Mount Desert Island / Laura M. Chmielewski -- Thomas Morton / Charlotte Carrington -- Alexander von Humboldt, his scientific expedition through the Americas and the impact of his Atlantic experiences / Sandra Rebok -- Part II. Slavery and freedom on the edges of the Atlantic world -- The crossings of Occramar Marycoo, or Newport Gardner / Edward E. Andrews -- Constituting value in a narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa / Bryan Sinche -- Enslaved ship pilots: challenging notions of race and slavery along the peripheries of the revolutionary Atlantic world / Kevin Dawson -- From Ireland to Africa: the criminal career and punishment of Patrick Madan / Emma Christopher -- The transatlantic slave trade and the vulnerability of free blacks in Benguela, Angola, 1780-1830 / Mariana P. Candido -- Part III. Introduction -- Indigenous leaders and the Atlantic world: the parallel lives of Dom Antonio Filipe Camarao and Pieter Poty, 1600-1650 / Mark Meuwese -- Law and colonial reform in the 18th century Spanish world: the life of Francisco Xavier Gamboa, Mexican lawyer / Christopher Albi -- Benkos Bioho: African Maroon leadership in New Grenada / Omar H. Ali -- "Je me vois reduit...a la Mendicite": marine veterans of New France and their new Atlantic world / Christian Crouch -- Paul Cuffe's journey from 'Musta' to Atlantic-African, 1778-1811 / Jeffrey A. Fortin -- Conclusion: Atlantic lives and Atlantic history / Mark Meuwese

The Atlantic federalist movements since 1865 laid the ground for the several generations of actual Atlantic alliance: the Anglo‐American rapprochement of the 1890s, the fighting alliances of the World Wars, and after 1945, the institutionalized Euro‐Atlantic system of NATO, EU, OECD and G‐7. Atlantic Union was proposed as an expandable "nucleus" for world federation, adding more countries as they became democratic; in practice, the Atlantic system has in each generation added former enemies: France, Italy‐Germany‐Japan, Spain, and now ex‐Communist countries. The rush to join is creating new pressure for institutional deepening.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Atlantic Crossings -- Prologue -- 1 Paris, 1900 -- 2 The Atlantic World -- 3 Twilight of Laissez-Faire -- 4 The Self-Owned City -- 5 Civic Ambitions -- 6 The Wage Earners' Risks -- 7 War Collectivism -- 8 Rural Reconstruction -- 9 The Machine Age -- 10 New Deal -- 11 London, 1942 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index