Episode Info & Recommended Readings
Season 1
Episode 1: Escaping Slavery, Building Communities
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Episode 2: Zwarte Piet and Vestiges of Dutch Colonialism
Suggested Readings
Emily Raboteau, "Who Is Zwarte Piet? A Holiday Tradition in the Netherlands Involving Blackface Has Sparked a Debate about Race, the Legacy of Slavery, and the Vestiges of Colonialism," The Virginia Quarterly Review 90, no. 1 (2014).
Sherilyn Deen, "Tracing Pasts and Colonial Numbness: Decolonial Dynamics in the Netherlands." Etnofoor 30, no. 2 (2018).
Lubumbe Van De Velde, "Black Pete, Black Motherhood and Womanist Ethics," in To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe, eds. Emejulu Akwugo and Sobande Francesca, London: Pluto Press, 2019.
Yvon Van Der Pijl and Karina Goulordava, "Black Pete, "Smug Ignorance," and the Value of the Black Body in Postcolonial Netherlands." NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 88, no. 3/4 (2014): 262-91.
Léontine Meijer-van Mensch and Peter Van Mensch, "Proud to Be Dutch?: Intangible Heritage and National Identity in the Netherlands," in Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, eds. Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis, and Gerard Corsane, 125-36. doi:10.7722/j.ctt81mt8.15.
Larry Vincent Buster, The Art and History of Black Memorabilia, 2000
Who is (Zwarte) Piet? A Continuing Evolution
Suggested Readings
Guillaume Aubert, "'To Establish One Law and Definite Rules”: Race, Religion, and the Transatlantic Origins of the Louisiana Code Noir." In Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World.
“Cane River Creole Community.” RFLP: Cane River Creole Community-A Driving Tour.
Leonard Dinnerstein, "A Note on Southern Attitudes toward Jews." Jewish Social Studies 32, no. 1 (1970).
Yelena Khanga, and Susan Jacoby. Soul to Soul: a Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992, New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
Lalita Tademy, Cane River. London: Headline, 2015.
Katya Gibel Azoulay, Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, & Other Myths of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Tudor Parfitt, "The Emergence of Black Jews in the United States." In Black Jews in Africa and the Americas, 66-101. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Allison Schottenstein, "Jews, Race, and Southernness." In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race, eds.Thomas C. Holt, Laurie B. Green, and Charles Reagan Wilson.
Episode 3: Black and Jewish Assimilation
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Suggested Readings
Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright Publishing, 2020).
Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring the Diaspora and Bearing the Nation,” in Mapping Diaspora, African American Roots Tourism in Brazil.
David Afriyie Donkor, “In the House of Stories: Village Aspirations and Heritage Tourism,” in Spiders of the Market, Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism.
Jarkko Saarinen and Haretsebe Manwa, “Tourism as a Socio-Cultural Encounter: Host-Guest Relations in Tourism Development in Botswana,” Botswana Notes and Records 39.
Weems, Robert E. Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century.
Suggested Readings
Aimé Césaire, “Discourse on Colonialism”
Frantz Fanon, “On Violence”
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
Claudia Rankine, “The White Card”
Suggested Readings
Sherwood Forest Plantation Foundation Facebook
President John Tyler's Enslaved Households
President without a Party by Christopher Leahy
John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward Crapol
They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke
A database called "Enslaved Ancestor File" created by the Center for Local History in Charles City County, VA.
Suggested Readings
"Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln" by Sarah Fling
"Paul Cuffe Biography," Paul Cuffe: An African-American and Native-American Heritage Trail
"Who led the First Back-to-Africa Effort?" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"The African-American Mosaic: Colonization" Library of Congress
Suggested Readings
Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia by Aline Helg
Matthew Restall, “Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America”
David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
Margaret M. Olsen, “‘Negros Horros’ and ‘Cimarrones’ on the Legal Frontiers of the Caribbean: Accessing the African Voice in Colonial Spanish American Texts”
Loredana Giolitto, “Esclavitud y libertad en Cartagena de Indias.
Suggested Readings
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by James Sweet
The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo Gómez
The Shambaa Kingdom: A History by Steven Feierman
Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa by John M. Janzen
Neil Kodesh, “History from the Healer’s Shrine: Genre, Historical Imagination, and Early Ganda History,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, 3 (2007).
Episode 9: Public Healing in the African Atlantic
Episode 10: Untangling the Sargasso Sea of Feminism
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Suggested Readings
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844 by Lucille Mair
Brown Girl In The Ring By Nalo Hopkinson
Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Suggested Readings
Break This Down: ‘I Am Queen Mary’ at Barnard
Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast by Pernille Ipsen
Considering Multiscalar Approaches to Creolization Among Enslaved Laborers at Estate Bethlehem, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands by Stephan Lenik
A Maroon Settlement on St. Croix by Polly Pope
An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Map of the Danish Sugar-Plantation Island St. Croix by Daniel Hopkins
Episode 11: Slavery in Danish St. Croix
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Episode 12: New Orleans: Slavery and the Urban Environment
Title: New Orleans from St. Patrick's Church 1852 / J.W. Hill & Smith
Credit: Library of Congress
Title: A scene on the levee, New Orleans
Credit: Library of Congress
Greg's digital exhibit: http://cahpexhibit.georgetown.domains/exhibits/show/global-highways
The Arrival of American Power to New Orleans, 1803-1816
Claiborne Avenue History Project
Greg's website: www.gregabeaman.com
Twitter: @historicbeaman
Suggested Readings
Dudley, Tara. “Ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship: the gens de couleur libres and the architecture of antebellum New Orleans, 1820-1850.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
Force, Pierre “The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Journal of American History 100, no. 1 (June 2013): 21–45.
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
Hangar, Kimberly. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997.
Ingersoll, Thomas. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Johnson, Rashauna. Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Spear, Jennifer. Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Anthony, Arthé A., Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century. University Press of Florida, 2012)
Evans, Freddi Williams. Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2011.
Magill, John T., “Big Easy Uneasy Street the History of Claiborne Avenue”, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2012.
Suggested Readings
Founded upon The Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and Their People by Michael Craton, 2003
The Lawless Caymanas: A Story of Slavery and Freedom: the West India Regiment Connection by Brian L. Kieran
Williams, Christopher A. “Premature Abolition, Ethnocentrism, and Bold Blackness: Race Relations in the Cayman Islands, 1834–1840.” The Historian 75, no. 4 (2013): 781–805.
Suggested Readings
Episode 13: Debunking Myths: Slavery in the Cayman Islands
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Episode 14: Social & Cultural Histories in a Global Atlantic
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Suggested Readings by Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks
A Concise History of the World (Cambridge 2015)
Early Modern Europe 1450- 1789 (Cambridge, 2nd ed. 2013)
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2010)
A History of Western Society, Volume 2: From the Age of Exploration to the Present
Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Blackwell, 2nd ed. 2010).
Works of Global History
What is Global History by Pamela Kyle Crossley
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 by Christopher Bayly
The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by Daniel R. Headrick
A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System by Patrick Manning