Making An Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South

Making An Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South. James Taylor Carson. Univ of TN Press (Knoxville)

... in the landscapes and cosmologies of the colonial South, one small corner of the Atlantic world, we can find the South's autobiography and recognize its multiple authors, ... we can see that an ocean is not necessarily an ocean, the story of colonization does not have to be a story of conquest, and "white" men, "red" men, and "black" men can be brothers born of the same mother. The stories we tell, after all, make us who we are and the land what it is. (122)