Biographical Analysis

Akurang-Parry, Kwabena. "`A Smattering of Education' and Petitions as Sources: A Study of African Slave Holders' Response to Abolition in the Gold Coast," History in Africa 27 (2000), 39-60

Akurang-Parry, Kwabena. “Remembering the Unforgotten: Histories of Enslavement and Transformation of the African Continent,” in Peyi Soyinka-Airwele and Rita Kiki Edozie, eds., Reframing Contemporary Africa: Politics, Culture, and Society in the Global Era. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010), 82-99

Akurang-Parry, Kwabena. “ 'I Often Shed My Tears about This': Freed Slave Children, Apprenticeship Policy, and African Responses in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana), ca.1890-ca.1930,” in Paul Landau ed., Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige (Madison: Parallel Press, 2011), 147-69

Alford, Terry. Prince Among Slaves (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)

Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986)

Austin, Allan D. African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook (New York: Garland, 1984)

Bailey, Anne C. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005)

Bellagamba, Alice, Sandra Greene and Martin Klein, eds. African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Bellagamba, Alice, Sandra Greene and Martin Klein, eds. African Slaves African Masters: Politics, Memories, Social Life (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2017)

Blassingame, John W. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1977)

Bossart, Johann Jakob Bossart, Arnold R. Highfield, and Vladimir Barac. C.G.A. Oldendorp History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John (Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma Publishers, 1987)

Byrd, Alexander X. Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-century British Atlantic World (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008)

Carretta, Vincent, ed., Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington: U. of Kentucky Press, 1996)

Castillo, Lisa Earl, and Luis Nicolau Parés. “Marcelina da Silva: A Nineteenth-Century Candomblé Priestess in Bahia,” Slavery & Abolition 31 (2010), 1–27

Cavalheiro, Daniela. “‘I am not a Slave’: Liberated Africans and their Usage of the Judicial System in Nineteenth Century Rio de Janeiro,” UNESCO General History of Africa, Global Africa (Paris: UNESCO, 2019), vol. 10

Conrad, Robert Edgar, Children of God's Fire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)

Conrad, Robert Edgar, World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil, Baton Rouge: LA: Louisana State University Press, 1986

Crosby-Arnold, Margaret. “Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges (1745-1799),” UNESCO General History of Africa, Global Africa (Paris: UNESCO, 2019), vol. 10

Curtin, Philip D., ed. Africa Remembered: Narratives of West Africans from the Era of Slave Trade (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967)

Daddi Addoun, Yacine and Paul E. Lovejoy, “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, 2007), 313-41

Domingues da Silva, Daniel B., David Eltis, Nafees Khan, Philip Misevich and Olatunji Ojo, “The Transatlantic Muslim Diaspora to Latin America in the Nineteenth Century,” Colonial Latin American Review 26:4 (2017),

Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Philip Misevich and Olatunji Ojo, “The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of African History 55:3 (2014), 347-69

Eltis, David, Martin Halbert and Philip Misevich. “African Names Database” (www.African-origins.org)

Fisch, Audrey, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Foster, Frances Smith, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979)

Fyfe, Christopher. “Four Sierra Leone Recaptives,” Journal of African History 2 (1961), 77-85

Graham, Sandra Lauderdale. “Being Yoruba in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro,” Slavery and Abolition 32:1 (2011), 1–26

Greene, Sandra E. West African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ghana (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)

Hair, P.E.H. “The Enslavement of Koelle’s Informants,” Journal of African History 6:2 (1965), 193-203

Handler, Jerome S. “Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados,” Slavery & Abolition 19 (1998), 129-41

Handler, Jerome S. “Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America,” Slavery and Abolition 23:1 (2002), 25-56

Handler, Jerome S. and JoAnn Jacoby. “Slave Names and Naming in Barbados, 1650-1830,” William and Mary Quarterly 53:4 (1996), 685-728

Ipsen, Pernille. Daughters of the Trade. Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Johnston, James H. From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012)

Jones, Adam. “New Light on the Liberated Africans and their Origins: A List of Children Named after Benefactors, 1821-4,” Proceedings of the 5th Birmingham Sierra Leone Studies Symposium, University of Birmingham, Birmingham 1990, 32-42

Jones, Adam, “Recaptive Nations: Evidence Concerning the Demographic Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Slavery and Abolition 11:1 (1990), 42-57

Keefer, Katrina. Children, Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone: Left in our Hands (London: Routledge, 2019)

Kirk-Greene, Anthony and Paul Newman, eds. West African Travels and Adventures: Two Autobiographical Narratives from Northern Nigeria (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1971)

Kolapo, F. J. "Military Turbulence, Population Displacement and Commerce on a Southern Frontier of the Sokoto Caliphate. Nupe c.1810-1857," Ph.D. thesis, York Univ. 1999

Kolapo, F. J. "A Primitive Slave Biographical Database for the Nigerian Hinterland: Exploring Sample Challenges and Prospects," Harriet Tubman Seminar, November 1, 1999

Krueger, Robert. “Brazilian Slaves Represented in their Own Words,” Slavery and Abolition 23 (2002), 169-86

La Rue, Michael. “African Slave Women in Egypt, from ca. 1820 to the Plague Epidemic of 1834-1835” in G. Campbell, S. Miers and J. Miller, eds. Women and Slavery: Volume One – Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Islands (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007), 168-189

LaRue, Michael. “Seeking Freedom in Multiple Contexts: An Enslaved Sudanese Woman’s Life Trajectory, ca. 1800-1834,” Journal of Global Slavery 2:1-2 (2017), 11-43

Law, Robin and Paul E. Lovejoy, The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America (Princeton, Markus Wiener Publisher, 2007)

Lindsay, Lisa A. and John Sweet, eds., Biography and the Black Atlantic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

Lovejoy, Henry B., dir., Liberated Africans. http://liberatedafricans.org/

Lovejoy, Henry B. Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2018)

Lovejoy, Paul E. Caravans of Kola. The Hausa Kola Trade, 1700-1900 (Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press, 1980)

Lovejoy, Paul E. "Background to Rebellion: The Origins of Muslim Slaves in Bahia," Slavery and Abolition, 15:2 (1994), 151-80

Lovejoy, "Biography as Source Material: Towards a Biographical Archive of Enslaved Africans," in Robin Law (ed.), Source Material for Studying the Slave Trade and the African Diaspora (Stirling: Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, 1997), 119-140

Lovejoy, Paul E. “Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa and the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” Slavery and Abolition 27:3 (2006), 317-47

Lovejoy, Paul E. “The African Background of Venture Smith,” in James B. Stewart, ed., Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), 35-55

Lovejoy, Paul E. “Les origines de Catherine Mulgrave Zimmermann: considérations méthodologiques,” Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire 14 (2011), 247-63

Lovejoy, Paul E. “Mohammed Ali Nicholas Sa’id: From Enslavement to American Civil War Veteran,” Millars (2017), 219-32

Lovejoy, Paul E. “Ali Eisami’s Enslavement and Emancipation: The Trajectory of a Liberated African,” in Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy, eds., Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019)

Mamigonian, Beatriz Gallotti. “To be a Liberated African in Brazil: Labour and Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century,” Ph.D. thesis, University of Waterloo, 2002

McKnight, Kathryn Joy. Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812. Hackett Publishing, 2009

Meuwese, Mark and Jeffrey A. Fortin, eds. Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World (Leiden: Brill, 2014)

Melek Delgado, Érika, “Children, Childhood and Slavery in Sierra Leone: The Experiences of Liberated African Children c.1808-1834,” Ph.D. thesis, University of Worcester, 2017

Meyer-Heiselberg, R., Notes from Liberated African Department in the Archives at Fourah Bay College Freetown, Sierra Leone. Uppsala: Scandinavian Inst. of African Studies, 1967

Moreira, Alinnie Silvestre. “Liberdade tutelada: os africanos livres e as relações de trabalho na Fábrica de Pólvora da Estrela, Serra da Estrela/RJ (c. 1831-c.1870).” Dissertação de Mestrado em História Social da Cultura, Campinas, SP, Unicamp, 2005

Nelson, V.N. “Archibald John Montheith: Native Helper and Assistant in the Jamaica Mission at New Carmel,” Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society 21 (1966), 29-52

Nwokeji, G. Ugo and David Eltis. “Characteristics of Captives Leaving the Cameroons for the Americas, 1822-37,” Journal of African History 43:2 (2002), 191-210

Ojo, Olatunji. “Amazing \struggle: Dasalu, Global Yoruba Networks, and the Fight against Slavery, 1851-1856,” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 12:1 (2015), 5-25

Oroge, Adeniyi. "The Institution of Slavery in Yorubaland with special reference to the 19th Century," Ph.D. thesis, University of Ibadan, 1971

Pescatello, Ann, ed. The African in Latin America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975)

Parker, Grant, ed., The Agony of Asar: A Thesis on Slavery by the Former Slave, Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747 (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001)

Rodríguez, Gloria García, Ada Ferrer, and Nancy L. Westrate. Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

Sensbach, Jon F. A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

Shields, Francine. “Palm Oil and Power: Women in an Era of Economic and Social Transition in 19th Century Yorubaland (South-Western Nigeria)” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Stirling, 1997)

Strictrodt, Silke. “Afro-Brazilians on the Western Slave Coast,” University of Stirling, 2000

Strictrodt, Silke. “Afro-European Trade Relations on the Western Slave Coast, 16th to 19th Centuries” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Stirling, 2002)

Sweet, James H. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)