2016-17 Howard University Slavery Seminar

Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University has announced the program of the slavery seminar at Howard University. Via Ana Lucia Araujo on Facebook:   #‎slaveryarchive‬ Before going on vacation, let me announce the program of the Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas" of the Department of History at Howard University, which I convene since 2012. … Continue reading 2016-17 Howard University Slavery Seminar

EDITED: Campbell and Elbourne on Sex, Power and Slavery

Gwyn Campbell and Elizabeth Elbourne, eds. Sex, Power, and Slavery. Ohio University Press, 2014. via Ohio University Press: Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: … Continue reading EDITED: Campbell and Elbourne on Sex, Power and Slavery

EDITED: Araujo on the Politics of Remembering Slavery

Ana Lucia Araujo, ed. Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space. Routledge, 2012. via Routledge: The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even … Continue reading EDITED: Araujo on the Politics of Remembering Slavery

BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery

Ana Lucia Araujo, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. Amherst, N.Y: Cambria Press, 2010. via Cambria Press: If recent scholarship has focused on the memory of slavery in the United States, few works have dealt with the public memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. When examining the role of … Continue reading BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery

Araujo (ed.) on History, Memory and the Slave Trade

Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, Ana Lucia Araujo, ed. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009), ISBN 13: 978-1-4438-0998-6, 301pp. Introduction The Slave Past in the Present Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Chapter One "According To My Reckoning": Remembering and Observing Slavery and Emancipation Leslie A. Schwalm, University of Iowa … Continue reading Araujo (ed.) on History, Memory and the Slave Trade

Paton on Enslaved Women and Slavery circa 1807 (and more)

Posted at History in Focus, a 14 volume journal published by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.  [On the main page, the link to the issue on slavery is broken.  Access it here.] Excerpt below: This year's commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the passage of the British Act for the … Continue reading Paton on Enslaved Women and Slavery circa 1807 (and more)