Additional Resources and Further Readings
Here are resources and readings connected to the Lilly Library Exhibition's displayed walls and cases.
Michael J. Turner, “Radical Opinion in an Age of Reform: Thomas Perronet Thompson and the Westminster Review,” History (2001), 86 (281). 18-40.
Michael J. Turner, “'Setting the captive free’: Thomas Perronet Thomspon, British Radicalism, and the West Indies, 1820s-1860s," Slavery & Abolition (2005) 26 (1), 115-132.
Nemata Amelia Blyden, West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse. University of Rochester Press, 2000.
Alex Borucki, “The ‘African Colonists’ of Montevideo: New Light on the Illegal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata (1830-1842),” Slavery and Abolition (2009) 30 (3), 427-444.
John Newsome Crossley, Hernando de los Rios Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age. Routledge: 2011.
Illustrations of Buenos Aires (Internet Archive): Link
Nelly Perazzo and Alana Hernandez, “Vidal, Emeric Essex,” Grove Art Online, 2019.
Lyman Johnson, Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810. Duke University Press, 2011.
Nira Wickramasinghe, Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Columbia University Press: 2020.
Marina Carter, “Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean,” History Compass (2006), 4/5, 800-813.
Ananya Chakravarti, “Mapping ‘Gabriel’: Space, Identity, and Slavery in the Late Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean,” Past and Present (2019), 243: 5-34.
David Birmingham, The Portuguese Conquest of Angola. Oxford University Press, 1965.
Marisabel Almer, “Remembering Angola- Cuban Internationalism, Transnational Spaces, and the Politics of Memories,” PhD Thesis, University of Michigan, 2011.
Gwyn Campbell, An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Angela Schottenhammer, “Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries),” Slavery & Abolition (2003), 24 (2): 143-154.
Yusef Komunyakaa, “The African Burial Ground,” Poetry (2014), 203 (6), pp. 502-503
Ira Berlin, Slavery in New York. The New Press, 2005.
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008
Christoph Irmscher, Longfellow Redux. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Mariana P. Candido, “Capitalism and Africa: Revisiting Way of Death Thirty-Five Years after its Publication”, American Historical Review (2022), 127 (3),1439-1448.
Copy of Real Cedula (in Spanish): Link
Ellen Hsieh, "The Power of Images in the Boxer Codex and Cultural Convergence in Early Spanish Manila," in Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific Region, ed. Maria Cruz Berrocal and Cheng-hwa Tsang. Florida Scholarship Online, 2018.
Manel Ollé, Joan-Pau Rubiés, ed. El Códice Boxer: Etnografía colonial e hibridismo cultural en las islas Filipinas. Universitate de Barcelona. Link
The World of the Boxer Codex: Link
Michael J. Turner, “'Setting the captive free’: Thomas Perronet Thomspon, British Radicalism, and the West Indies, 1820s-1860s," Slavery & Abolition (2005) 26 (1), 115-132.
Nemata Amelia Blyden, West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse. University of Rochester Press, 2000.
Alex Borucki, “The ‘African Colonists’ of Montevideo: New Light on the Illegal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro and Rio de la Plata (1830-1842),” Slavery and Abolition (2009) 30 (3), 427-444.
John Newsome Crossley, Hernando de los Rios Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age. Routledge: 2011.
Illustrations of Buenos Aires (Internet Archive): Link
Nelly Perazzo and Alana Hernandez, “Vidal, Emeric Essex,” Grove Art Online, 2019.
Lyman Johnson, Workshop of Revolution: Plebeian Buenos Aires and the Atlantic World, 1776-1810. Duke University Press, 2011.
Nira Wickramasinghe, Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Columbia University Press: 2020.
Marina Carter, “Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean,” History Compass (2006), 4/5, 800-813.
Ananya Chakravarti, “Mapping ‘Gabriel’: Space, Identity, and Slavery in the Late Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean,” Past and Present (2019), 243: 5-34.
David Birmingham, The Portuguese Conquest of Angola. Oxford University Press, 1965.
Marisabel Almer, “Remembering Angola- Cuban Internationalism, Transnational Spaces, and the Politics of Memories,” PhD Thesis, University of Michigan, 2011.
Gwyn Campbell, An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Angela Schottenhammer, “Slaves and Forms of Slavery in Late Imperial China (Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries),” Slavery & Abolition (2003), 24 (2): 143-154.
Yusef Komunyakaa, “The African Burial Ground,” Poetry (2014), 203 (6), pp. 502-503
Ira Berlin, Slavery in New York. The New Press, 2005.
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008
Christoph Irmscher, Longfellow Redux. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Mariana P. Candido, “Capitalism and Africa: Revisiting Way of Death Thirty-Five Years after its Publication”, American Historical Review (2022), 127 (3),1439-1448.
Copy of Real Cedula (in Spanish): Link
Ellen Hsieh, "The Power of Images in the Boxer Codex and Cultural Convergence in Early Spanish Manila," in Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific Region, ed. Maria Cruz Berrocal and Cheng-hwa Tsang. Florida Scholarship Online, 2018.
Manel Ollé, Joan-Pau Rubiés, ed. El Códice Boxer: Etnografía colonial e hibridismo cultural en las islas Filipinas. Universitate de Barcelona. Link
The World of the Boxer Codex: Link
Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution. London: Penguin, 2019.
Sowande’ Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Carlos Zeron, “From Farce to Tragedy: Antonio Vieira’s Hubris in a War of Factions,” Journal of Jesuit Studies 2 (2015), 387-420.
Pedro Machado, “Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade,” in Damian A. Pargas & Juliene Schiel (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman, and Matthias Van Rossum, Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour. De Gruyter, 2022.
Alex Borucki and Gregory O’Malley, “Patterns in the intercolonial slave trade across the Americas before the nineteenth century,” Revista Tempo (2017), 23 (2): 323-338.
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. Penguin Random House, 2008.
Nicholas Radburn & David Eltis, “Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2019), 49 (4): 533 - 565.
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade. Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University.
Elizabeth Polcha, “Voyeur in the Torrid Zone,” Early American Literature (2019), 54 (3): 673-710.
Mario Klarer, “Humanitarian Pornography: John Gabriel Stedman’s “Narrative of a Five Years Exhibition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam” (1796),” New Literary History (2005), 36 (4): 559-587
Emily Senior, “’Perfectly Whole’: Skin and Text in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Exhibition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2010) 44 (1): 39-56.
Anton de Kom (tr. David McKay), We Slaves of Suriname. Polity, 2022.
Stuart Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835. Cambridge University Press: 1985.
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press: 2012.
Sowande’ Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Carlos Zeron, “From Farce to Tragedy: Antonio Vieira’s Hubris in a War of Factions,” Journal of Jesuit Studies 2 (2015), 387-420.
Pedro Machado, “Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade,” in Damian A. Pargas & Juliene Schiel (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery Throughout History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman, and Matthias Van Rossum, Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour. De Gruyter, 2022.
Alex Borucki and Gregory O’Malley, “Patterns in the intercolonial slave trade across the Americas before the nineteenth century,” Revista Tempo (2017), 23 (2): 323-338.
Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. Penguin Random House, 2008.
Nicholas Radburn & David Eltis, “Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2019), 49 (4): 533 - 565.
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade. Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University.
Elizabeth Polcha, “Voyeur in the Torrid Zone,” Early American Literature (2019), 54 (3): 673-710.
Mario Klarer, “Humanitarian Pornography: John Gabriel Stedman’s “Narrative of a Five Years Exhibition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam” (1796),” New Literary History (2005), 36 (4): 559-587
Emily Senior, “’Perfectly Whole’: Skin and Text in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Exhibition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2010) 44 (1): 39-56.
Anton de Kom (tr. David McKay), We Slaves of Suriname. Polity, 2022.
Stuart Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835. Cambridge University Press: 1985.
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press: 2012.
Marcelo D’Salete Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runnaway Slaves. Fantagraphics Book, 2019.
Edward A. Alpers, “Flight to Freedom: Escape from Slavery among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1750 – 1962,” in Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker. University of California Press, 2007.
Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. Yale University Press, 2019.
Keith Sandiford, “Beckford: the aesthetics of negotiation,” in The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (118-149)
Michael Sivapragasam, “The second maroon war: runaway slaves fighting on the side of Trelawny Town,” Slavery & Abolition (2020), 41 (3), 555-581.
Bradley Lynn Craig, “Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.” PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2020.
Vincent Brown, “Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery,” Social Text (2015) 125: 134-141.
Vincent Brown, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” American Historical Review (2009), 114 (5): 1231-1249.
Edward A. Alpers, “Flight to Freedom: Escape from Slavery among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1750 – 1962,” in Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker. University of California Press, 2007.
Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. Yale University Press, 2019.
Keith Sandiford, “Beckford: the aesthetics of negotiation,” in The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. Cambridge University Press, 2000. (118-149)
Michael Sivapragasam, “The second maroon war: runaway slaves fighting on the side of Trelawny Town,” Slavery & Abolition (2020), 41 (3), 555-581.
Bradley Lynn Craig, “Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.” PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2020.
Vincent Brown, “Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery,” Social Text (2015) 125: 134-141.
Vincent Brown, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” American Historical Review (2009), 114 (5): 1231-1249.
David Kazanjian, “The Speculative Freedom of Colonial Liberia,” American Quarterly 63(4), Dec. 2011 pp. 863-893.
Gregg Mitman, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. The New Press, 2021.
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause. Yale University Press, 2016.
Claude Clegg, The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Ellen Gibson Wilson, Thomas Clarkson: A Biography. 2nd ed. William Sessions, 1996.
Roquinaldo Ferreira, “Measuring short- and Long-Term Impacts of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic, 1807-1860,” in David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, eds. Networks and Trans-Cultural Exchange: Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill, 2014.
“Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846)” BBC History. Link
“José Antonio Saco” George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Link
Richard B. Allen, “Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism, and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System,” Slavery & Abolition, 35, 2 (2014): 328-348.
Gregg Mitman, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. The New Press, 2021.
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause. Yale University Press, 2016.
Claude Clegg, The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Ellen Gibson Wilson, Thomas Clarkson: A Biography. 2nd ed. William Sessions, 1996.
Roquinaldo Ferreira, “Measuring short- and Long-Term Impacts of Abolitionism in the South Atlantic, 1807-1860,” in David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, eds. Networks and Trans-Cultural Exchange: Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill, 2014.
“Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846)” BBC History. Link
“José Antonio Saco” George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Link
Richard B. Allen, “Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism, and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System,” Slavery & Abolition, 35, 2 (2014): 328-348.
Wickremeratne, L.A. “The Establishment of the Tea Industry in Ceylon.” In The Sri Lanka Reader, edited by John Clifford Holt, 279–95. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Wissenbach, Maria Cristina Cortez. 2015. “Historical Dynamics of a Central African Port: Ambriz and the Lower Congo at the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Between the 1840s and 1870s”. Revista De História, no. 172 (June):163-95.
Robins, Jonathan, Oil Palm: A Global History. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Mason, Margie. “Palm Oil Labor Abuses Linked to World's Top Brands, Banks.” AP NEWS. Associated Press, September 25, 2020. Link
Slotten, Ross. The Heretic in Darwin’s Court. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Anderson, Clare. Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Roberts, Alaina. I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Little, Nigel. Transoceanic Radical: William Duane. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008.
Villasenor, Gilberto III. “The Politics of Indigenous Social Struggle in Colombia”. MA Thesis, DePaul University, 2014. Link
Acemoglu, Daron, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno, and James Robinson. “Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia.” Journal of Comparative Economics (2012), 40, 534-564.
Regnier, Denis and Dominique Somda. “Slavery and Post-Slavery in Madagascar: An Overview.” 2018. Link
Nandini Boodia-Canoo, Slavery, Indenture, and the Law: Assembling a Nation in Colonial Mauritius. Taylor and Francis, 2023.
Wissenbach, Maria Cristina Cortez. 2015. “Historical Dynamics of a Central African Port: Ambriz and the Lower Congo at the End of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Between the 1840s and 1870s”. Revista De História, no. 172 (June):163-95.
Robins, Jonathan, Oil Palm: A Global History. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Mason, Margie. “Palm Oil Labor Abuses Linked to World's Top Brands, Banks.” AP NEWS. Associated Press, September 25, 2020. Link
Slotten, Ross. The Heretic in Darwin’s Court. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Anderson, Clare. Subaltern Lives: Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790-1920. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Roberts, Alaina. I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Little, Nigel. Transoceanic Radical: William Duane. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008.
Villasenor, Gilberto III. “The Politics of Indigenous Social Struggle in Colombia”. MA Thesis, DePaul University, 2014. Link
Acemoglu, Daron, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno, and James Robinson. “Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia.” Journal of Comparative Economics (2012), 40, 534-564.
Regnier, Denis and Dominique Somda. “Slavery and Post-Slavery in Madagascar: An Overview.” 2018. Link
Nandini Boodia-Canoo, Slavery, Indenture, and the Law: Assembling a Nation in Colonial Mauritius. Taylor and Francis, 2023.
Podcast: Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon .
Podcast: Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools (Reveal Podcast).
Graphic Novel: Charles Walker and Liz Clarke, Witness to the Age of Revolution. Oxford University Press: 2020.
Indrani Chatterjee, “Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence”, in Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton, eds., Slavery in South Asian History. Indiana University Press, 2006: 287-315.
Documentary Film 13th (Netflix). Dir. Ava Marie DuVernay
Richard Allen, “Asian Indentured Labor in the 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Plantation World,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. 2017.
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother. Plume: 1997.
Charles Walker, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Harvard University Press: 2014.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past. Beacon Press: 1995.
Eduardo Galeano tr. Cedric Belfrage, Memory of Fire, 3 vv. Pantheon Books: 1985-6.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, ed. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World: 2021.
Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom. Penguin Books: 2012.
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black Against Empire: The History of the Black Panther Party. University of California Press, 2016.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press: 2012.
Web Resources on the Afterlives of Slavery:
Georgetown University: Center for the Study of Slavery and its Legacies.
University of Glasgow: Historical Slavery Initiative.
Black Panther Magazines Online: Link 1, Link 2
13th amendment: Link
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Toussaint L’Ouverture.
National Archives: Amistad.
Golden Legacy: Teacher’s Guide.
Bertram Fitzgerald and the Golden Legacy: Link
Podcast: Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools (Reveal Podcast).
Graphic Novel: Charles Walker and Liz Clarke, Witness to the Age of Revolution. Oxford University Press: 2020.
Indrani Chatterjee, “Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence”, in Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton, eds., Slavery in South Asian History. Indiana University Press, 2006: 287-315.
Documentary Film 13th (Netflix). Dir. Ava Marie DuVernay
Richard Allen, “Asian Indentured Labor in the 19th and Early 20th Century Colonial Plantation World,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. 2017.
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother. Plume: 1997.
Charles Walker, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Harvard University Press: 2014.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past. Beacon Press: 1995.
Eduardo Galeano tr. Cedric Belfrage, Memory of Fire, 3 vv. Pantheon Books: 1985-6.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, ed. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World: 2021.
Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom. Penguin Books: 2012.
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black Against Empire: The History of the Black Panther Party. University of California Press, 2016.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press: 2012.
Web Resources on the Afterlives of Slavery:
Georgetown University: Center for the Study of Slavery and its Legacies.
University of Glasgow: Historical Slavery Initiative.
Black Panther Magazines Online: Link 1, Link 2
13th amendment: Link
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Toussaint L’Ouverture.
National Archives: Amistad.
Golden Legacy: Teacher’s Guide.
Bertram Fitzgerald and the Golden Legacy: Link
A drawing of Elmina Castle from the Portuguese era (fantasy-drawing).
Images from the Lilly Library Collection:
*Above image: "A drawing of Elmina Castle from the Portuguese era (fantasy-drawing)." Vijf dagregisters van het kasteel São Jorge da Mina (Elmina) aan de Goudkust (1645-1647), ed. K. Ratelband. 'S-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1953.
*Banner image: "Cape Town, S. Africa." Frontispiece to James Backhouse, A Narrative of a Visit to Mauritius and South Africa. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1844.
This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.