Episode Info & Recommended Readings
Season 3
Suggested Readings
An Original Piece by Professor Sir Geoff Palmer OBE on “Plaques,” [link]
Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica, and Slavery by Kate Phillips
The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 by Stephen Mullen
Freedom Bound – Escaping Slavery in Scotland by Warren Pleece, Shazleen Khan (Editor), and Robin Jones
Joseph Knight by James Robertson
"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)
Spirit Possession, Modernity & Power in Africa by Heike Behrend (1999)
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.
Suggested Readings
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
Native Americans Before 1492: The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands by Lynda N. Shaffer
Episode 32: Pre-Contact Indigenous North America
To learn more about Isra, you can visit her university profile here
Suggested Resources
Public History Projects:
Espaço & Narrativas DF [link]
15 Minute History [link]
Readings:
Bacelar da Silva, Antonio José. Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil. United States: Rutgers University Press, 2022.
Alberto, Paulina Laura. "Terms of Inclusion: Black Activism and the Cultural Conditions for Citizenship in a Multi-Racial Brazil, 1920–1982." Order No. 3197642, University of Pennsylvania, 2005.
Rodrigues, Cristiano, and Marco Aurelio Prado. 2012. “A History of the Black Women’s Movement in Brazil: Mobilization, Political Trajectory and Articulations with the State.” Social Movement Studies 12 (2): 158–77.
Santos, Jaqueline Lima, and Mário Augusto Medeiros Da Silva. 2022. “Archives of Hip Hop and Black Activism in Brazil: Preserving the Memory of Anti-Racist Movements and Their Expression through Rap Offers a Powerful Way to Resist Erasure and Continue the Struggle for Rights and Dignity.” NACLA Report on the Americas 54 (2): 209–16.
Suggested Readings
Miraval, Nathalie. "How To Tame Your Dragon: Saint Martha, Hechicería, and Afro-Catholic Expressive Culture in Sixteenth-Century New Spain," 2025. [link].
Rarey, Matthew Francis. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2023.
Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 2020.
Rowe, Erin Kathleen. “After Death, Her Face Turned White: Blackness, Whiteness, and Sanctity in the Early Modern Hispanic World.” The American Historical Review 121, no. 3 (2016): 727–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43954963.
Episode 34: Women’s Domestic Devotion in the Early Afro-Iberian Atlantic
To learn more about Nathalie Miraval, you can visit her university profile here
Episode 35: Social Networks of Women of African Descent in New Spain
View Ursula Rall's McNeil Center Fellow Profile here
Suggested Readings
Rall, Ursula. 2025. “Legal Consciousness, Gender, and the Manumission of Ana de Los Ángeles, an Enslaved Woman in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City.” Slavery & Abolition, June, 1–18. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2025.2518517.
Valerio, Miguel A. Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640. of Afro-Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
McKinley, Michelle A. Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700. of Studies in Legal History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Williams, Danielle Terrazas. The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Yale University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2c3k21f.
Sierra Silva, Pablo Miguel. Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de Los Ángeles, 1531-1706. India: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Velázquez Gutiérrez, María Elisa. Mujeres de origen africáno en la capital novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006.
Suggested Readings
Episode 36: Black Womanhood in the Romantic Archive
To learn more about Mathelinda Nabugodi, you can visit her university profile here
Suggested Readings
Farmer, Ashley D. Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025.
Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. United States: Pantheon Books, 1992.
LeFlouria, Talitha. Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block. Beacon Press, 2026.
Ndubuizu, Rosemary. The Undesirable Many: Black Women and Their Struggles against Displacement and Housing Insecurity in the Nation’s Capital. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Cope, Suzanne. Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. United Kingdom: Chicago Review Press, 2021.
Suggested Readings
Landers, Jane. Black Society in Spanish Florida. United States: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
The African American Heritage of Florida. United States: University Press of Florida, 1995.
Deagan, Kathleen., MacMahon, Darcie., Landers, Jane. Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom, Second Edition. United States: University Press of Florida, 2025.
Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. United States: University Press of Florida, 2009.
Episode 38: Fort Mose: Black History in Spanish Florida
To learn more about Naomi, you can visit her Instagram profile: @naomiloveshistory
Suggested Readings
David Head. The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates. Greece: University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Hans, Steven C. A Pirate's Life No More: The Pardoned Pirates of the Bahamas. University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Wilson, David. Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Boydell & Brewer, 2021.
Powell, M.. British Pirates in Print and Performance. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva; Afro-Mexican Women in Saint-Domingue: Piracy, Captivity, and Community in the 1680s and 1690s. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2020; 100 (1): 3–34.
Suggested Readings
Dupuy, Alex. Haiti Since 1804: Critical Perspectives on Class, Power, and Gender. United States: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Dupuy, Alex. “Haiti and the Indemnity Question.” The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 55, no. 1 (2023): 112–21. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27280616.
Price-Mars, Jean. So Spoke the Uncle. United States: Three Continents Press, 1983.
Eller, Anne. We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2016.
Daut, Marlene L.. The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025.
Episode 40: Black Pericles: Haitian Worldmaking in the Nineteenth Century
To learn more about Sébastein, you can visit his university profile here
Episode 41: Leprosy, Immigration, & Public Health in US Empire
For Jackie Wu's university profile, click here
Suggested Readings
Adria L. Imada, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration (2022)
Michelle Moran, Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States (2007)
Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (2006)
Zachary Gussow, Leprosy, Racism, and Public Health (1986)
Rod Edmond, Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (2007)
Tony Gould, A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World (2005)
Anne Perez Hattori, Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941 (2004)
Caroline Lieffers, “‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone,” Postcolonial Studies 27(1), 2024, pp 36–58.
Adria L. Imada, "Intimacies of Sound and Skin at Carville." Southern Cultures 29, no. 1 (Spring, 2023): 5-23,104.
Suggested Readings
Ayalogu, Chichi. Digital Exhibit: Propaganda, Africanfuturity, and the Spectral Resonance of the Biafran Gambit. [Link].
Ayalogu, Chichi. “Diasporic Witnessing: Art Aesthetics in Response to Crisis”. 2025. Nordic Journal of African Studies 34 (1): 18–37. https://doi.org/10.53228/jr2j2c36.
Ayalogu, Chichi. 2025. “Visual Culture and the Politics of Humanitarian Consumption: The Case of the Biafran Gambit.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 61 (1): 66–80. doi:10.1080/17449855.2024.2429704.
Heerten, Lasse. The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering. of Human Rights in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Adebayo, Sakiru. Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. University of Michigan Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12572368.
Aneke, Luke Nnaemeka. The Untold Story of the Nigeria-Biafra War: A Chronological Reconstruction of the Events and Circumstances of the Nigerian Civil War. United States: Triumph Pub., 2007.
Falola, Toyin, and Ogechukwu Ezekwem, eds. Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War. NED-New edition. Boydell & Brewer, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1c3gxm9.
Staunton, Enda. “The Case of Biafra: Ireland and the Nigerian Civil War.” Irish Historical Studies 31, no. 124 (1999): 513–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021121400014395.
Bello, Taiwo. Biafrans Everywhere: Diaspora Voices and Activism During the Nigerian Civil War. [Link].
Episode 42: Africanfuturity & The Spectral Resonance of the Biafran Gambit
To learn more about Chichi, you can visit her university profile here