Tubman Seminars Series 1999/2000

  • Paul E. Lovejoy     

    Title: Letters of the Old Calabar Slave Trade, 1760-1789

    (Paper by Paul Lovejoy and David Richard )    

    Date: 13-Sept., 99
  • Ivana Elbl    

    Title: The King’s Business in Africa: Decisions and Strategies of the Portuguese Crown: 1450-1521    

    Date: 28-Sept., 99
  • David Eltis  

    Title: Transatlantic Connections: the Contribution of the New Slave Trade Database (CD-ROM Demo, No Paper)    

    Date: 4-Oct., 1999
  • David Eltis   

    Title: Gender and the Slave Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic World    

    Date: 4-Oct., 99
  • Gwendolyn Midlo Hall    

    Title: In search of African Roots: the Louisiana Slave and Free Database (CD-ROM Demo, No Paper)    

    Date: 18-Oct., 99
  • Gwendolyn Midlo Hall    

    Title: African Ethnicities in the Americas: evidence from the Louisiana Slave Database    

    Date: 18-Oct., 99
  • Femi Kolapo    

    Title: Missionaries and Traders’ Reports and the Creation of a Slave Biographical Database for the Nigerian Hinterland: Challenges and Prospects right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 1-Nov., 99

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  • Robin Law    

    Title: On the African Background to the Slave Insurrection in Saint-Domingue (Haïti) in 1791: the Bois Caiman Ceremony and the Dahomian ‘Blood Pact’ right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 8-Nov., 99

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  • Edward A. Alpers    

    Title: Becoming "Mozambique": Diaspora and Identity in Mauritius right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 15-Nov., 99

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  • Julie Winch

    Title: "A Gentleman of the Pave": James Forten and the issue of race in Philadelphia’s Antebellum business community    

    Date: 1-Dec., 99
  • Monica Schuler    

    Title: Liberated Central Africans in Nineteenth-Century Guyana right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 24-Jan., 00

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  • Ann O’Hear

    Title: Elite Slaves and Their Descendants: Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries    

    Date: 31-Jan., 00
  • Thabit Abdullah    

    Title: Overview of Basra’s Commercial Links and Their Decline in the Eighteenth-Century right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 7-Feb., 00

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  • Philip Morgan    

    Title: The World of Books and the Real World: an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Perspective right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 28-Feb., 00

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  • Renée Soulodre-La France    

    Title: Socially Not So Dead! Slave Identities in Bourbon Nueva Granada right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 6-March, 00

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  • José Curto 

    Title: The Story of Nbena: from illegal enslavement back to freedom in Benguela, Angola, 1816-1819 right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 20-March,00

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  • Verene Shepherd    

    Title: Slavery without Sugar in Jamaica’s Plantation Society: some implications for enslaved and enslavers right.jpg (3663 bytes)    

    Date: 28-March, 00

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  • Sean O’Fahey

    Title: Islam, Language and Ethnicity in Eastern Africa: some literary considerations right.jpg (3663 bytes)

    Date: 3-Apr., 00

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