Outputs (18)

'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya (2023)
Thesis
Farah, F. 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571172

My research deals with slavery and its legacies in Mombasa, Kenya. The ethnic tensions that exist today in Mombasa have their roots in two historical legacies, slavery and colonialism. Seeds of inequalities planted during those two periods still dict... Read More about 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya.

Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2019)
Journal Article
Pearson, R., & Richardson, D. (2019). Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 417-446. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050719000068

Copyright © 2019 The Economic History Association. One important, but overlooked, risk mitigation device that facilitated the growth of the slave trade in the eighteenth century was the increasing availability of insurance for ships and their human c... Read More about Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Contemporary Slavery in Historical Perspective (2018)
Book Chapter
Richardson, D. (2018). Contemporary Slavery in Historical Perspective. In E. Swanson, & J. Brewer Stewart (Eds.), Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries (41-73). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316890790.003

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016 (2017)
Book
Eltis, D., Engerman, S. L., Drescher, S., & Richardson, D. (2017). D. Eltis, S. Engerman, S. Drescher, & D. Richardson (Eds.). The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139046176

© Cambridge University Press 2017. Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. Th... Read More about The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016.

Consuming goods, consuming people: reflections on the transatlantic slave trade (2016)
Book Chapter
Richardson, D. (2016). Consuming goods, consuming people: reflections on the transatlantic slave trade. In P. Misevich, & K. Mann (Eds.), The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world (31-63). University of Rochester Press and Boydell & Brewer Limited

Sexe, esclavage et biopolitique: approche comparée (2015)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J., & Richardson, D. (2015). Sexe, esclavage et biopolitique: approche comparée. In M. Spensky (Ed.), Le contrôle du corps des femmes dans les Empires coloniaux: Empires, genre et biopolitiques (81-106). Karthala

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2015)
Book
Eltis, D., & Richardson, D. (2015). Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yale University Press

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-... Read More about Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (2014)
Book
Richardson, D. (2014). D. Richardson, & F. Ribeiro da Silva (Eds.). Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280588

Studies of the South Atlantic commercial world typically focus on connections between Angola and Brazil, and specifically on the flows of enslaved Africans from Luanda and the relations between Portuguese-Brazilian traders and other agents and their... Read More about Networks and trans-cultural exchange: Slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867.

Slavery, memory and orality : analysis of song texts from northern Ghana (2014)
Thesis
Saboro, E. Slavery, memory and orality : analysis of song texts from northern Ghana. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217687

This thesis explores memories of slavery and the slave trade among the Bulsa and Kasena of northern Ghana and focuses on late nineteenth century internal slave trafficking. Previous studies on memories of the slave trade in Ghana have focused on the... Read More about Slavery, memory and orality : analysis of song texts from northern Ghana.

The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity (2012)
Thesis
Wills, M. The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214103

This thesis examines the Royal Navy’s efforts to suppress the transatlantic slave trade between 1807 and the mid-1860s. The role of the West Africa squadron in detaining slave ships embarking from the West African coast was instrumental in the transf... Read More about The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity.