This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History while
stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies.
It is a collection of substantive sophisticated and variegated essays combining case studies
with theoretical reflections organized into three sections: race and blood metropoles and
colonies and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders race and early
Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century
Curaçao Portuguese converso Sephardic imperialist behavior Caspar Barlaeus' attitude toward
Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname
Savannah's eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting Freemasonry and
Sephardim in the British Empire the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the
Caribbean key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim the holocaust slavery
and race Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau Jacques La
Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.
