Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at

Victoria University Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of New Zealand Parliament, Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Z ...

who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. His updating of

James A. Rawley James A. Rawley (November 19, 1916 - November 29, 2005) was professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was a specialist in the American Civil War, American race-relations and the life of Abraham Lincoln. His ''The Tran ...

's ''The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History'', originally published by Norton in 1981, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005. In 2010, he co-edited an edition of ''The Diary of

Antera Duke Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was a leading African slave dealer and Efik chief from Old Calabar in the Bight of Biafra in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State) during the late eighteenth century. He gradually prospered and was member o ...

, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader'' with

A. J. H. Latham Anthony John Heaton Latham (born 30 October 1940) is an economic historian at University College of Swansea. He has specialised in the economic history of the developing world during the establishment of the global economy, and the trading of com ...

and

David Northrup David Northrup (born March 6, 1961, in Laramie, Wyoming) is an American politician and Republican Party member of the Wyoming House of Representatives representing the 25th district since January 10, 2023. Northrup represented the 50th district i ...

Selected publications

Books

* Rawley, James A. ''The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History''. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. (Reviser) * ''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)

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

External links

*http://www.slavevoyages.org Victoria University of Wellington faculty Historians of slavery Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{historian-stub