Stephen D. Behrendt

Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. ^[1]

His updating of James A. Rawley's The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, originally published by Norton in 1981, ^[2] was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005. ^[3] In 2010, he co-edited an edition of The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader with A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Selected publications

Books

• Rawley, James A. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. (Reviser) ISBN   0803239610
• The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010. (With A.J.H. Latham and David Northrup) ISBN   9780195376180

Articles and chapters

• "Human Capital in the British Slave Trade" in David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles, eds., Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2007. pp. 66-97.
• "Ecology, Seasonality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, eds., Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009. pp. 44-85 & 461-85.
• "The Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Robert Paquette and Mark Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. pp. 251-74.
• "Sail on, Albion: the Usefulness of Lloyd's Registers for Maritime History, 1760–1840", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 568–586. (With Peter M. Solar)
• "Liverpool as a Trading Port: Sailors’ Residences, African Migrants, Occupational Change and Probated Wealth", International Journal of Maritime History , Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov. 2017), pp. 875–910. (With Robert A. Hurley)

References

1. "Steve Behrendt - School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations - Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz.
2. Klein, Herbert S. (1 April 1983). "James A. Rawley. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New York: W. W. Norton. 1981. Pp. xiv, 452. $24.95" . The American Historical Review. 88 (2): 361–362. doi:10.1086/ahr/88.2.361 – via academic.oup.com.
3. Manning, Patrick (2006). "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition. By JAMES RAWLEY with STEPHEN D. BEHRENDT. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+441. £38.5 (ISBN 0-8032-3961-0)". The Journal of African History. 47 (3): 529. doi:10.1017/S0021853706452439. S2CID   163066637.
4. The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader. Oxford University Press. 8 March 2010. ISBN   978-0-19-537618-0.
5. Lovejoy, Paul E. (5 May 2011). "The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (review)". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 12 (1). doi:10.1353/cch.2011.0004. S2CID   161970987.
6. Hawthorne, Walter (2010). "A FIRST HAND PERSPECTIVE ON THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE - The Diary of Antera Duke, An Eighteenth-century African Slave Trader. By Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. latham, and David Northrup. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+300. £45/$75 hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-537618-0)". The Journal of African History. 51 (3): 411–412. doi:10.1017/S002185371000054X. S2CID   232253398.

External links

• http://www.slavevoyages.org