San Antonio College Library

Narrative of the Hawks-Ravenal family on the Mississippi, in "Cotton Blossom", their floating palace theater

Beginning with Ponce de León and ending with Washington and Jefferson, this narrative history for young people covers three hundred years of the most interesting and dramatic period in our history.

Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected. Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic,...