Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Eltis, David, “The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644–1867: An Assessment,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 347–78.
Finkelman, Paul, “Regulating the African Slave Trade,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 379–405.
Kelley, Sean, “Blackbirders and Bozales: African-Born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the Nineteenth Century,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 406–23.
Lowance, Mason, and Jan Pilditch, “Writing the Law: Literature and Slavery in Nineteenth Century America,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 66–82.
Marshall, Kenneth E., “Threat of a Bondman: Political Self-Fashioning and Christian Empowerment in the Memoir of Quamino Buccau, A Pious Methodist,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (Sept. 2008), 361–88.
O’Neil, Patrick W., “Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 29–48.
Olmstead, Alan L., and Paul W. Rhode, “Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy,” Journal of Economic History, 68 (Dec. 2008), 1123–71.
Weiner, Dana E., “Anti-abolition Violence and Freedom of Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 1843–1848,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 179–204.
Younger, Karen Fisher, “Liberia and the Last Slave Ships,” Civil War History, 54 (Dec. 2008), 424–42.
Zafar, Rafia, “Frederick Douglass and George Teamoh: Anxieties of Influence in the Postbellum Slave Narrative,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Connolly, David Hugh, Jr., “A Question of Honor: State Character and the Lower South’s Defense of the African Slave Trade in Congress, 1789–1807” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309848.
Dacus, Chad, “Essays on the Economic History of Slavery” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309851.
di Bonaventura, Allegra, “This Little World: Family and Slavery in Old New England, 1678–1764” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317092.
Fuentes, Marisa Joanna, “Buried Landscapes: Enslaved Black Women, Sex, Confinement, and Death in Colonial Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306141.
Gibbs, Jenna Marie, “Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Rights, and Revolution in Transatlantic Theatricality (1760s–1830s)” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3318238.
Hickman, Jared Winston, “Black Prometheus: Political Theologies of Atlantic Slavery” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312382.
Johnson, Michelle, “‘Pure and Undefiled Religion’: David Walker’s Use of the Bible against the Christian Slaveocracy in America” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3308405.
McIlhenny, Ryan, “To Preach Deliverance to the Captives: Antislavery and Anti-Catholicism in the Religious Writings of George Bourne (1780–1845)” (University of California, Irvine, 2008). Order No. DA3308604.
Picarelli, John T., “The ‘Modern Day’ Trade in Human Beings: How Historical Experience Influences the Contemporary Trafficking in Persons” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3305794.
Riley, Padraig Griffin, “Northern Republicans and Southern Slavery: Democracy in the Age of Jefferson, 1800–1819” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306312.
Turner, Jennifer Louise, “From Savagery to Slavery: Upper Louisiana and the American Nation” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314222.
Walsh-Russo, Cecelia Catherine, “‘The World Is My Country and My Countrmen Are All Mankind’: Transnational Diffusion of Anglo-American Abolitionism, 1824–1839” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317629.
Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judith Newman, eds., Public Art, Memorials, and Atlantic Slavery. (London: Routledge, 2009. 178 pp. $125.00, isbn 978-0-415-48315-5.)
Neal, Anthony W., Unburdened by Conscience: A Black People’s Collective Account of America’s Ante-bellum South and the Aftermath. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. xii, 153 pp. Paper, $26.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4387-0.)
Thomas, Kenneth, The Religious Dancing of American Slaves, 1820–1865: Spiritual Ecstasy at Baptisms, Funerals, and Sunday Meetings. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 136 pp. $99.95, isbn 978-0-7734-4926-8.)
Voigt, Lisa, Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xii, 339 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3199-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5944-5.)
Woolfork, Lisa, Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03390-2.)
Lockley, Timothy James, ed., Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxiv, 142 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-776-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-57003-777-1.)
Ray, William, Horrors of Slavery: Or, the American Tars in Tripoli, ed. Hester Blum. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 202 pp. Cloth, $68.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4412-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4413-7.) Originally published in 1808.
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