Episode Info & Recommended Readings
Season 3
Suggested Readings
An Original Piece by Professor Sir Geoff Palmer OBE on “Plaques,” [link]
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Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica, and Slavery by Kate Phillips
The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 by Stephen Mullen
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Freedom Bound – Escaping Slavery in Scotland by Warren Pleece, Shazleen Khan (Editor), and Robin Jones
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Joseph Knight by James Robertson
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"Scotland’s links with Caribbean Slavery, by Prof Sir Geoff Palmer" [link]
Suggested Readings
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana by Wyatt MacGaffey ( 2013)
Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World: The Gold Coast and the African Diaspora by Robert Hanserd (2019)
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Spirit Possession, Modernity & Power in Africa by Heike Behrend (1999)
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Stay tuned for his forthcoming publications in both the Journal of West African History and the University of Wisconsin Press.
Episode 30: Cooking the War: Warfare, Diplomacy, & Spirituality in Atlantic Africa
To learn more about Ishmael, you can visit his university profile here
Episode 31: Representing Africans in Early Modern Dutch Prints
View Arianna's University Profile here
Suggested Readings
Digital humanities resources:
Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe: A Timeline (1600-1800) directed by Zirwat Chowdhury [link]
Image of the Black in Western Art Database [link]
Slave Voyages [link]
Medicine and the Making of Race,1440-1720 [link]
Readings:
Kolfin, Elmer. "When Africans Became Black: Dürer, Rubens and the Changing Image of Africans in Northern Europe." Print Quarterly 34, no. 4 (2017): 379-392.
Kolfin, Elmer and Epco Runia, eds. Black in Rembrandt’s Time. Zwolle: WBOOKS / Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 2020.
Lyon, J. Vanessa and Caroline Fowler. "Revision and Reckoning: The Legacy of Slavery in Histories of Northern Art." Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 14, no. 1 (2022): DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2[022.14.1.1](http://022.14.1.1)
Ndiaye, Noémie and Lia Markey, eds. Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Tempe: ACMRS Press, 2023.
Sint Nicolaas, Eveline, ed. Slavery. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Amsterdam/Antwerp: Atlas Contact, 2021.