African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations

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Atlantic World Context

Project Author: Mary Battle, College of Charleston

Contributing Author and Editor: Christopher Sawula, University of Alabama

Editorial Contributors
Ted Blanton, College of Charleston
Christophe J. Boucher, College of Charleston
Andrew Cuadrado, College of Charleston
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
David Gleeson, Northumbria University
Beth Gniewek, College of Charleston
Assan Sarr, Ohio University
John White, College of Charleston
Carl Wise, College of Charleston

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Establishing Slavery in the Lowcountry

Project Author: Mary Battle, College of Charleston

Editorial Contributors
Bradley Blankemeyer, College of Charleston
Kwesi Degraft-Hanson, Emory University
John Harris, Johns Hopkins University
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Amanda Mushal, Citadel: Military College of South Carolina
Neal Polhemus, University of South Carolina
Christopher Sawula, University of Alabama
Hayden Smith, College of Charleston

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Bull, Kinloch. “Barbadian Settlers in Early Carolina: Historiographical Notes” in South Carolina and Barbados Connections: Selections from South Carolina Historical Magazine, edited by Stephen Hoffius, 75-85. Charleston, South Carolina: Home House Press, 2011.

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Curtin, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 

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Dusinberre, William. Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Thompson, Michael. Working on the Dock of the Bay: Charleston’s Waterfront 1783-1861. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming publication. 

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Links

Avery Research Centerfor African American History and Culture
http://avery.cofc.edu/

Free the Slaves: Modern Slavery 
https://www.freetheslaves.net/

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition 
http://www.yale.edu/glc/index.htm

Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
http://www.gullahgeecheecorridor.org 

International African American Museum
http://www.iaamuseum.org/

Jubilee Project
http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/

Lowcountry Digital Library
http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/

National Museums Liverpool: International Slavery Museum
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/

Program for the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World
http://claw.cofc.edu/

USI: Understanding Slavery Initiative
http://www.understandingslavery.com/

UNESCO: The Slave Route
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/dialogue/the-slave-route

Schomburg Center for Research for Research in Black Culture: Digital Schomburg
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/online_exhibitions

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
http://nmaahc.si.edu 

Voyages Database: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
http://www.slavevoyages.org