Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

Patrick Manning, ‘Africa and the African Diaspora: New Directions of Study’, JAH, 44 (2003)
Jean-Francois Bayart, ‘Africa in the World: a History of Extraversion’, African Affairs, 99 (2000).
Isidore Okpewho et al eds, African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (2001)
Paul Gilory, The Black Atlantic (1992)
David Northrup, Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850 (Oxford, 2002)
Vincent Carretta, Equiano , the African : Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005)
Sources
P Edwards (ed) Equiano’s Travels (1967) [There are many later editions of Olaudah Equiano’s life as a slave]
E Donnan (ed.) Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade, vol. 1, 282–301; vol. 2, 393–417, 632–42 [UL]
a) J Thornton The Kongolese Saint Anthony (1998) (instead of article if you need to delete something?)
b) JDY Peel, Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba (2000) [perhaps instead of Landau since most Africa
texts are Southern Africa. David Maxwell might have further advice for this topic]
Further work on Africa.
a) S Drescher From slavery to freedom (1999)
b) Suggest revision of question to: [these latter two might be better as exam questions]
HS Klein The Atlantic Slave Trade (1999)
P Curtin, The Atlantic slave trade: a census (1972)
J Iliffe Africans (2 nd edn, 2007) ch 7
D. Eltis and D. Richardson (eds.), ‘Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave
Trade’ Slavery and Abolition (Special Issue) 18, 1 (1997)
W. Hawthorne, Planting rice and harvesting slaves: transformations along the Guinea-Bissau coast, 1400-1900 (2003)
R. Law, Slave-raiders and middlemen, monopolists and free-traders: the supply of slaves for the Atlantic trade in
Dahomey c. 1715-1850’ Journal of African History 30 (1989), 45-68
Latham, A J H. Old Calabar (1973)
P Lovejoy and D Richardson, ‘Trust, pawnship, and Atlantic history: the institutional foundations of the old Calabar
slave trade’ American Historical Review 104 (1999), pp. 333-355
K. Mann, Slavery and the birth of an African city: Lagos, 1760-1900 (2007)
D. Northrup, Trade without rulers (1978)
c) How far did West African slave merchants and their communities see themselves as belonging to the Atlantic
World?
G.E. Brooks, Eurafricans in Western Africa (2003)
P.D. Curtin, Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the era of the Slave Trade (1967)
D. Eltis et.al. ‘The Costs of Coercion: African Agency in the History of the Atlantic World’ Economic History Review 54
(2001), pp. 454-76
D. Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (2000)
D. Forde (ed.), Efik Traders of Old Calabar (1956)
D. Henige, ‘John Kabes of Komenda: An Early African Entrepreneur and State Builder’, Journal of African History 18
(1977), pp.1-19
R. Kea, Settlements, Trade and Politics in the Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast (1982)
H.S. Klein, ‘The African Organization of the Slave Trade’ in The Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 103-129
R. Law and K. Mann, ‘West Africa in the Atlantic Community: The Case of the Slave Coast’ William and Mary
Quarterly 55 (1999), pp. 307-34
R. Law and S. Strickrodt (eds.), Ports of the Slave Trade (1999)
R. Law, Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port (2004)