Please join the Sex & Slavery Lab and the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in welcoming Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, CUNY) on campus this week. Deirdre Cooper Owens is an associate professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. The recipient of several prestigious honors including … Continue reading EVENT: Cooper Owens on Medical Bondage @JohnsHopkins (Sep 18-20)
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DIGITAL: The Runaway Slaves in Britain Project Launches Today
Just launched: "The Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain project has created a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped. Many were of African descent, though a small number were from the Indian sub-continent and a … Continue reading DIGITAL: The Runaway Slaves in Britain Project Launches Today
BOOK: Mitchell on Vénus Noire, Race and Sex in 19th Century France
Robin Mitchell, Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Athens; University of Georgia Press, 2018) Via UGA Press: "Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, … Continue reading BOOK: Mitchell on Vénus Noire, Race and Sex in 19th Century France
EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
New edited volume by Dominique Rogers and Boris Lesueur, via Karthala: "L’affranchissement individuel au sein d’une société à esclaves ou esclavagiste informe sur des situations singulières ou exceptionnelles. Dans une perspective comparatiste, cet ouvrage examine les parcours originaux de ces affranchis entre le XIVe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle, et dans un vaste … Continue reading EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
BOOK: Scott on the Common Wind of Black Radicalism During Slavery
Finally! Julius Scott, A Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery (Verso, 2018). via Verso: "Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colourful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. … Continue reading BOOK: Scott on the Common Wind of Black Radicalism During Slavery
BOOK: Miller on The French Atlantic Triangle
Christopher L. Miller, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2008). "The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, … Continue reading BOOK: Miller on The French Atlantic Triangle
BOOK: Edwards on The Practice of Diaspora
Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003). "A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals … Continue reading BOOK: Edwards on The Practice of Diaspora
EDITED: Germain and Larcher on Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality
Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher, eds. Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) via UNP: "Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered … Continue reading EDITED: Germain and Larcher on Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality
DIGITAL: Anna Julia Cooper Collection | Howard University
New digital collection on 19th century thinker and activist Anna Julia Cooper: "This project was completed with funding and support from Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner in conjunction with the Anna Julia Cooper Society; a Digital Humanities Grant from the Center for Humanities and Information at Penn State University; and Adrena Ifill and DoubleBack Productions." http://dh.howard.edu/ajcooper/
BOOK: Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery and the Middle Passage
Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. 11/15/08 edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. via HUP: "This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of … Continue reading BOOK: Smallwood on Saltwater Slavery and the Middle Passage
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