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Paul
E. Lovejoy
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| Degrees:
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B.Sc., Clarkson College
of Technology, 1965
M.Sc., University of Wisconsin, 1967
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973
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| Current
Position: |
Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada
Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History
Distinguished Research Professor, York University
Director, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora
(www.yorku.ca/nhp)
Research Professor, Department of History, University of Hull (UK)
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| Recent
Publications: |
Books:
| 2005 |
Hugh Clapperton
into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition
1825-1827(Leiden: Brill) (co-edited with Jamie Bruce Lockhart)
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| 2005 |
edited, Donald G. Simpson,
Under the North Star: Black Communities in Upper Canada
before Confederation (1867), New Brunswick NJ: Africa World
Press
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| 2005 |
Slavery, Commerce and Production
in West Africa: Slave Society in the Sokoto Caliphate (Trenton
NJ: Africa World Press)
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| 2005 |
Ecology and Ethnography of
Muslim Trade in West Africa (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press)
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| 2005 |
Revolución, Independencia
y emancipación: La lucha contra la esclavitud (San
José: UNESCO), co-edited with Rina Cáceres
Gómez
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| Chapters
in Books and Articles: |
| 2005 |
“Identity and the Mirage
of Ethnicity: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s Journey in
the Americas,” in Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald,
eds., African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the
Diaspora (London: Cavendish Publishing, 2005)
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| 2005 |
“The Sahara-Atlantic
Divide, Or How Women Fitted into the Slave Trade,”
in Gwyn Campbell and Suzanne Miers (eds.), Women and Slavery
(Athens: Ohio University Press)
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| 2005 |
“Trans-Atlantic Transformations:
The Origins and Identities of Africans in the Americas,”
in Willem Wubbo Klooster (ed.), The Atlantic World (New
York: Prentice-Hall)
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| 2005 |
“The Yoruba Factor
in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,” in Matt Childs
and Toyin Falola (eds.), The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic
World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 40-55
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| 2005 |
“The Context of Enslavement
in West Africa: Ahmad Baba and the Ethics of Slavery,”
in Jane Landers (ed.), Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives:
Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press)
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| 2005 |
“Narratives of Trans-Atlantic
Slavery: The Lives of Two Muslims, Muhammad Kaba Saghanaghu
and Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua,” in Naana Opoku-Agyemang,
Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David Trotman,
eds), Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora (Trenton
NJ: Africa World Press, 2005)
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| 2005 |
(with David Richardson) “Commerce
and Credit at Bonny, 1690-1840,” in Carolyn Brown,
Paul E. Lovejoy and Renée Soulodre-La France (eds.),
Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior
of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora (Trenton
NJ: Africa World Press)
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| 2005 |
“Alternatives to Revolution
and Insurrection – Gustavus Vassa, alias ‘Olaudah
Equiano,’ and the Abortive Plantation Scheme of Dr.
Charles Irving on the Mosquito Shore,” in Rina Cáceres
Gómez and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. Revolución,
Independencia y emancipación: La lucha contra la
esclavitud (San José: 2005)
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| 2005 |
“O Fator Iorubá
no Tráfico Transatlântico de Escravos,”
in Mariza de Carvalho Soares (organizadora), Rotas Atlânticas
da Diáspora Africana: os 'Pretos Minas' no Rio de
Janeiro, séculos XVIII-XX (Rio de Janeiro, 2005)
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| 2005 |
“Spanish and British
Rivalry for the Mosquito Shore in the 1770s, and the Radicalization
of Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano,” in Jaime
Arocha, ed., Homenaje a Nina S. de Friedemann (Bogota: )
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| 2005 |
“The Voice of an Enslaved
African Muslim in Brazil: Introduction to the Brazilian
Edition of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s Biography,”
in Robin Law and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds., Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua.
As Desventuras de um Escravo Africano no Brasil, Caribe,
Estados Unidos e Canada (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Pallas/Afirma,
2005).
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| 2005 |
“The Arabic Manuscript
of Muhammad Kaba Saghanughu of Jamaica, c. 1820,”
in Annie Paul,ed., Creole Concerns: Essays in Honour of
Kamau Brathwaite (Kingston: University of the West Indies
Press, 2005) (with Yacine Daddi Addoun)
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| 2005 |
“The Urban Background
of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas,” Slavery and
Abolition
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| 2005 |
“Alhaji Ahmad el-Fellati
ibn Dauda ibn Muhammad Manga: Personal Malam to Emir Muhammad
Bello of Kano,” Sudanic Africa
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| Web publications: |
| 2005 |
“The ‘Middle Passage’:
The Enforced Migration of Africans across the Atlantic,”
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, ProQuest |
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Conference
Presentations:
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| 2005 |
Organizer, “Memory
and Methodology in the Study of the African Diaspora,”
Summer Workshop, York University, 3-24 July 2005 |
| 2005 |
“The African Dimension,”
Conferencia sobre Etnicidad en la Región Centroamericana,
Antigua Guatemala, 9-12 March 2005 |
| 2005 |
“Amerindian, African,
European – Interface, Interaction, Intercourse,”
Conference on Activating the Past: Latin America in the Black
Atlantic, UCLA, April 23-24, 2005 |
| 2005 |
“Comparing the Life Histories
of Two Muslims in the Americas,” El Colegio de Mexico,
26 April 1005 |
| 2005 |
“Las rutas de la esclavitud
y la experiencia en África,” Conference on Negros,
mulatos y morenos de Guerrero y sus costas: afrodescendientes
y diversidad cultural, Acapulco, 27-29 April 2005 |
| 2005 |
“Autobiography and Memory:
Gustavus Vassa and the Abolition of the Slave Trade,”
Colloque international/International Conference: Mémoires
croisées : esclavage et diaspora africaine –
Crossing Memories : Slavery and African Diaspora, Université
Laval, 2-3 May 2005 |
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| Courses
taught recently: |
History 5901.06, The
African Diaspora
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| Research
Interests: |
Testimonies of Enslavement
from the Central Sudan – book ms.
The Slave Trade of the Bight
of Biafra – book ms. with David Richardson
Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah
Equiano, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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| Awards/Grants:
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Faculty of Arts Research
Grant, 2004-05 |
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