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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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“Cane River Creole Community.” RFLP: Cane River Creole Community-A Driving Tour.
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Leonard Dinnerstein, "A Note on Southern Attitudes toward Jews." Jewish Social Studies 32, no. 1 (1970).
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Yelena Khanga, and Susan Jacoby. Soul to Soul: a Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992, New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
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Lalita Tademy, Cane River. London: Headline, 2015.
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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.
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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.
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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 in Louisiana
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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.
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Jarkko Saarinen and Haretsebe Manwa, “Tourism as a Socio-Cultural Encounter: Host-Guest Relations in Tourism Development in Botswana,” Botswana Notes and Records 39.
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Weems, Robert E. Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century.
Suggested Readings
Aimé Césaire, “Discourse on Colonialism”
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Frantz Fanon, “On Violence”
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Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
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Claudia Rankine, “The White Card”
Suggested Readings
Sherwood Forest Plantation Foundation Facebook
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President John Tyler's Enslaved Households
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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
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"Paul Cuffe Biography," Paul Cuffe: An African-American and Native-American Heritage Trail ​
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"Who led the First Back-to-Africa Effort?" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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"The African-American Mosaic: Colonization" Library of Congress
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Suggested Readings
Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia by Aline Helg
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Matthew Restall, “Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America”
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David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
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Margaret M. Olsen, “‘Negros Horros’ and ‘Cimarrones’ on the Legal Frontiers of the Caribbean: Accessing the African Voice in Colonial Spanish American Texts”
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Loredana Giolitto, “Esclavitud y libertad en Cartagena de Indias.
Suggested Readings
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Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by James Sweet
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The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo Gómez
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The Shambaa Kingdom: A History by Steven Feierman
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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa by John M. Janzen​
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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
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844 by Lucille Mair
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Brown Girl In The Ring By Nalo Hopkinson
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Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
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Suggested Readings
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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
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Considering Multiscalar Approaches to Creolization Among Enslaved Laborers at Estate Bethlehem, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands by Stephan Lenik
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A Maroon Settlement on St. Croix by Polly Pope
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An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Map of the Danish Sugar-Plantation Island St. Croix by Daniel Hopkins
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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
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The Arrival of American Power to New Orleans, 1803-1816
Claiborne Avenue History Project
Greg's website: www.gregabeaman.com
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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.​
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Spear, Jennifer. Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
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Anthony, Arthé A., Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century. University Press of Florida, 2012)
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Evans, Freddi Williams. Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2011.
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Magill, John T., “Big Easy Uneasy Street the History of Claiborne Avenue”, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2012.​
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Suggested Readings
Founded upon The Seas: A History of the Cayman Islands and Their People by Michael Craton, 2003
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The Lawless Caymanas: A Story of Slavery and Freedom: the West India Regiment Connection by Brian L. Kieran
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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)
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Early Modern Europe 1450- 1789 (Cambridge, 2nd ed. 2013)
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Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2010)
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A History of Western Society, Volume 2: From the Age of Exploration to the Present
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Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Blackwell, 2nd ed. 2010).
Works of Global History
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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
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A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System by Patrick Manning
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