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.
Suggested Readings
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
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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]
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15 Minute History [link]
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Readings:
Bacelar da Silva, Antonio José. Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil. United States: Rutgers University Press, 2022.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Suggested Readings
​​​​Miraval, Nathalie. "How To Tame Your Dragon: Saint Martha, Hechicería, and Afro-Catholic Expressive Culture in Sixteenth-Century New Spain," 2025. [link]. ​
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​Rarey, Matthew Francis. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2023.
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Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 2020.
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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
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​​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.​
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Valerio, Miguel A. Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640. of Afro-Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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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.
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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.
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Sierra Silva, Pablo Miguel. Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de Los Ángeles, 1531-1706. India: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Velázquez Gutiérrez, María Elisa. Mujeres de origen africáno en la capital novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006.​​​​​
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Suggested Readings
​​​​Mathelinda Nabugodi, The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive, 2025. [link]. ​​​
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Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic, 2023. [link].
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The Bigger 6 Collective [link].
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Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race [link].
Episode 36: Black Womanhood in the Romantic Archive
To learn more about Mathelinda Nabugodi, you can visit her university profile here
Suggested Readings
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​​Farmer, Ashley D. Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025.
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Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. United States: Pantheon Books, 1992.​
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LeFlouria, Talitha. Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block. Beacon Press, 2026.
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​ 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.
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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.​​​​​
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