The assumption that African-descended people were more able than European-descended people to labor in the “hot” climates of southern North America and the Caribbean was an important justification for slavery in the British Empire since at least the early eighteenth century, and…
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This dissertation examines the transnational efforts to abolish slavery in Saudi Arabia after 1945. The British Anti-Slavery Society spearheaded this global campaign and sought allies from Cairo to Cleveland. The Society’s major platform for publicity was the United Nations, and…
This thesis argues that the narrators of nineteenth century slave narratives used their knowledge of America’s economy of enslavement to condemn the cruelty of White enslavers, showcase the morality of enslaved people, and depict the triumphant liberation of enslaved people. The…
Archaeological and historical data are used to examine transformations in settlement organization and settlement patterns along the Pra River, southern Ghana, from the first millennium BC to the mid-twentieth century. The study’s focus is on Supomu Island and Wawase, two abandon…
This dissertation asks how the British anti-slave-trade movement permeated musical culture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how musical activities, in turn, were used to support the cause. It examines a group of newly discovered musical scores—described here a…
“Engendered Experiences of Freedom: Liberated African Women in Rio de Janeiro (1834-1864)” investigates how gender differences in daily lives of liberated African women in Brazil shaped the way they experienced freedom. This research argues that gendered-based differences influe…
ABSTRACT: The primary intent of this research is to analyze and document the progression of European influence and domination in modern-day Malawi, and to explore the incident at Lake Nyasa. East Africa during the nineteenth century was a period of rapid growth, rising violence,…
This work explores the ramifications of slavery for modern Britain, contrasting ancient and pre-modern institutions within the context of Britain’s former colonies (Williams, 1994). Modern attitudes to slavery are inspected, revealing the continuing manifestation of anti-black r…
Based on the research questions employed in this study, the Nigerian immigrant community first began with student sojourners and is currently more effective within the African-American context. This community would perhaps have been much slower in evolving but for the crisis of …
Enduring Memory: Metaphors of the Slave Trade in West African Literature investigates the means by which West Africans have preserved, both consciously and unconsciously, the memory of the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the postcolonial period. This study intervenes in…
This dissertation examines the trans-Saharan slave trade in relation to the economic and political transformations occurring in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Regency of Tunis. Specifically, it documents the shifting trends of the slave trade within broader patter…
This study examines the impact of transformations in Atlantic commerce on Africans living in southern Sierra Leone between 1790 and 1861. Extant studies of 19th century Africa have outlined a linear progression from the suppression of the slave trade to the rise of "legitimate c…
Black captives and voyagers comprised the vast majority of all eighteenth-century Atlantic migrants, yet the migration history of the British Atlantic largely ignores them. The oversight holds hostage the development of a more global understanding of transatlantic dislocation. T…