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.


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