The American Historical Review and Past & Present have joined forces to publish a joint, virtual special issue reviewing historiographic debates related to slavery and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. "The editors of The American Historical Review and Past & Present are pleased to present a free virtual issue on ‘Slavery and anti-slavery in the … Continue reading ARTICLES/JOURNAL: Special Joint Issue on Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic world
David Eltis
DIGITAL/NEWS: Slave Trade Database to Expand, Update Website | The Emory Wheel
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, an online database providing information about slaves and slave trading voyages, will soon expand to include information about intra-American slave trade as well as have a new accessibility. The online database is supervised by two Emory faculty members in partnership with international scholars. The project investigators — David Eltis, Robert… … Continue reading DIGITAL/NEWS: Slave Trade Database to Expand, Update Website | The Emory Wheel
AUDIO: Eltis on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database | Africa Past and Present
On Africa Past and Present: David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University, on the making of the Transatlantic Slave Trade database, a landmark collaborative digital project he has co-edited for two decades. Eltis discusses the research process, online dissemination, and new directions for the initiative. This is the second part of … Continue reading AUDIO: Eltis on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database | Africa Past and Present
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: Leading scholars explore the moral dimension of American history A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show … Continue reading BOOK: Mintz & Stauffer, et. al. on the Problem of Evil & Slavery
Eltis and Richardson Edited Volume on Slave Trade Database
Eltis, David, and David Richardson. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. A series of scholars of slavery and the slave trade join Eltis and Richardson for a study on the function and utility of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (available for use and … Continue reading Eltis and Richardson Edited Volume on Slave Trade Database
Fields-Black on Deep Roots of Rice Cultivation in West Africa and the Diaspora
Fields-Black, Edda L. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 2008. Gilbert, Erik. "Coastal Rice Farming Systems in Guinea and Sierra Leone, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. By Edda L. Fields-Black." The Journal of African History 50, no. 03 (2009): 437-438. From … Continue reading Fields-Black on Deep Roots of Rice Cultivation in West Africa and the Diaspora
AHR Exchange: “The Question of ‘Black Rice”
This month's American Historical Review features a forum on Judith Carney's much discussed work Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2001). Scholars S. Max Edelson, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Walter Hawthorne, David Eltis, Philip Morgan and David Richardson weigh in. AHR Exchange: The Question of “Black Rice” Introduction … Continue reading AHR Exchange: “The Question of ‘Black Rice”
Luso-Brazilian Review Special Issue: ReCapricorning the Atlantic
Volume 45, Issue 1 (2008) includes: Hebe Mattos. ““Black Troops” and Hierarchies of Color in the Portuguese Atlantic World: The Case of Henrique Dias and His Black Regiment.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45, no. 1 (2008): 6-29. Walter Hawthorne. ““Being now, as it were, one family”: Shipmate bonding on the slave vessel Emilia, in Rio de Janeiro … Continue reading Luso-Brazilian Review Special Issue: ReCapricorning the Atlantic
Guardians of the Slave Trade
Stephanie E. Smallwood, “African Guardians, European Slave Ships, and the Changing Dynamics of Power in the Early Modern Atlantic,” William & Mary Quarterly 64, no. 4 (October 2007): 679-716. First Paragraph Steal: "POWER was nowhere more precariously held in the early modern Atlantic than aboard a slave ship. Because their cargoes were unwilling travelers, slave … Continue reading Guardians of the Slave Trade
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Online
From the website: Over 34,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1527 and 1866 that have been identified and verified to have actually occurred make up the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Records of the voyages have been found in multiple archival sources which are listed in a variable in the dataset. These records provide details about vessels, … Continue reading Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database Online
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