BOOK: Hartman’s Lose Your Mother
Saidiya V. Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. via Farrar, Straus and Giroux: In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces […]
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ARTICLE: Winsboro and Knetsch on the ‘Saltwater Railroad’
Irvin D. S. Winsboro, and Joe Knetsch. “Florida Slaves, the ‘Saltwater Railroad’ to the Bahamas, and Anglo-American Diplomacy.” Journal of Southern History 79, no. 1 (February 2013): 51–78. Abstract: A […]
BOOK: Johnston on the Yarrow-Turners of Virginia-Maryland
James H. Johnston, From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2012. Via Fordham University Press: From Slave […]
EDITED: Gleeson and Lewis on the Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans
David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds. Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. From University of South Carolina Press: In […]
EDITED: Lovejoy and Bowser on Teaching the Atlantic Slave Trade
Paul E. Lovejoy, and Benjamin P. Bowser, eds. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora. Trenton, NJ: Africa […]
ARTICLE: Milbrandt on Livingstone and the Law (via The Legal History Blog)
Jay Milbrandt, “Livingstone and the Law: Africa’s Greatest Explorer and the Abolition of the Slave Trade.” SSRN eLibrary (August 20, 2012). Abstract: Few historical events have had such tragic, widespread, […]
ARTICLE: Coghe on Liberated Africans in Mid-Nineteenth Century Luanda
Samuël Coghe, “The Problem of Freedom in a Mid Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Society: The Liberated Africans of the Anglo-Portuguese Mixed Commission in Luanda (1844–1870).” Slavery & Abolition 33, no. 3 […]
BOOK: Walvin on the British Slave Ship Zong
James Walvin. The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. via publisher’s website: On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of […]
BOOK: Mintz & Stauffer, et. al. on the Problem of Evil & Slavery
Mintz, Steven, and John Stauffer. The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, And the Ambiguities of American Reform. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. From the University of Massachusetts Press website: […]
BOOK: Botte on Slavery and Islam in North, East Africa
Botte, Roger. Esclavages et abolitions en terres d’Islam. Bruxelles: André Versaille éditeur, 2010. From the website: Comment la malédiction biblique de Cham (condamnation à l’esclavage et châtiment par la noirceur […]
