Paul Lovejoy is a Canadian historian in African history and African diaspora history. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor and

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Work

Lovejoy is the founding director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and its

Diasporas A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. Historically, the word was used first in reference to the dispersion of Greeks in the Hellenic world, and later Jews after ...

. He is the series editor of the Harriet Tubman Series of books on the African Diaspora.

Bibliography

* ''Caravans of kola: The Hausa kola trade, 1700-1900'' (1 Jan 1980) * ''Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan'' (31 May 1986) * ''Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria 1897-1936'' (27 August 1993) * ''Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa'' (28 August 2000) * ''Pawnship, Slavery, and Colonialism in Africa'' (1 Jan 2003) * ''Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery'' (1 September 2003) * ''Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam'' (1 June 2004) * ''

Hugh Clapperton Bain Hugh Clapperton (18 May 1788 – 13 April 1827) was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Early career Clapperton was born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, where his father, George Clapperton, was a surgeon. He gained s ...

into the Interior of Africa: Records of the Second Expedition, 1825-1827'' (14 March 2005) * ''Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa'' (15 May 2005) * ''Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa'' (15 August 2005) * ''Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History'' (3 June 2008) * ''Identity in the Shadow of Slavery'' (3 August 2009) * ''Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora'' (22 October 2010) * ''Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora'' (9 Mar 2011) * ''Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa'' (10 October 2011) * ''The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery'' (5 December 2012) * ''Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on how Cultures define drugs: Drugs in History and Anthropology'' (8 April 2014) * ''Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone'' (30 October 2014) * ''Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions'' (30 November 2016) * ''Calabar on the Cross River: Historical and Cultural Studies'' (22 May 2017)

References

Living people York University faculty 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian Africanists 1943 births 21st-century Canadian historians {{Africanist-stub