Barry Gaspar

Professor of History

dgaspar@duke.edu

Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719

306 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

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A Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: Slave Rebellion in the West Indies in the 1730s

Chapter · 2010 This collection brings together some of the key contributions to this growing body of scholarship, showing a range of methodological approaches, that can be used to understand and reconstruct the lives of these enslaved people. ... Cite

’Subjects to the King of Portugal’: Captivity and Repatriation in the Slave Trade to Antigua, 1724

Chapter · 2005 Cite

"’Subjects to the King of Portugal’: Captivity and Repatriation in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antigua 1724)"

Chapter · 2005 Cite

Review of The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert Harms

Journal Article The American Historical Review · February 2004 Full text Cite

Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas

Book · 2004 Cite

CONTOURS: A Journal of the African Diaspora

Journal Article · 2004 Cite

"’To Be Free Is Very Sweet’: The Manumission of Female Slaves in Antigua, 1817-26"

Chapter · 2004 Cite

A Turbulent Time: The Greater Caribbean in the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions (paperback edition)

Book · 2003 Cite

Reforming slavery in the British Caribbean: The Lives of Enslaved Women

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

’A Practice Pregnant with Ruin’: Slave Flight from the British Leeward Islands to Puerto Rico, 1740-1778

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

The Organization of the Saint Lucia Militia, 1823

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

The Abolition of the Slaves’ Sunday Markets at Montserrat, 1736

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

Slavery, Amelioration, and the Role of the Slave Population in the Internal Economy of Antigua

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

The Saint Christopher Slaver Insurrection Scare of 1778

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

The Sugar Revolution, Deforestation, and Slave Resistance in Antigua and Barbados

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

The Slave Women of Two Antigua Sugar Plantations (1817-1834)

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

The "Colored American" newspaper and the Migration of Free Blacks of the US to the British Sugar Colonies of the Caribbean, 1834-1844

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

Review of A History of Antigua: The Unsuspected Isle by Brian Dyde

Journal Article NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids · January 2003 Cite

Review of Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson

Journal Article American Literature · September 2002 Cite

’Rigid and Inclement’: Origins of the Jamaica Slave Laws of the Seventeenth Century

Journal Article · 2001 Cite

’Rigid and Inclement’: Origins of the Jamaica Slave Laws of the Seventeenth Century

Chapter · 2001 Cite

’With a Rod of Iron’: The Barbados Slave Laws as a Model for Jamaica, the Leeward Islands and South Carolina

Chapter · 1999 Cite

A Turbulent Time: The Greater Caribbean in the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions

Book · 1997 Cite

Revolution, Slavery and Emancipation in Saint Lucia, 1793-1838

Chapter · 1997 Cite

Ameliorating Slavery: The Leeward Islands Slave Act of 1798

Chapter · 1997 Cite

Revolution, Slavery, and Emancipation in Saint Lucia, 1793-1838

Chapter · 1997 Cite

’Deep in the Minds of Many’: Slave Women and Resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763

Chapter · 1996 Cite

Bondmen and Rebels

Book · 1993 Cite

Working the System: Antigua Slaves and Their Struggle to Live

Journal Article Slavery and Abolition · December 1992 Cite

The Slave Trade, Resistance, and Compensation in Antigua in the 1720s

Chapter · 1992 Cite

Slave Life and Sugar Production in Antigua Slave Society before 1800

Chapter · 1992 Cite

Antigua Slaves and Their Struggle to Survive

Chapter · 1991 Cite

Afterword

Chapter · January 1, 1991 Loosely based on the Haitian slave insurrection of 1791, Babouk is a biting account of colonialism at its peak. ... Cite

Slavery, Amelioration, and Sunday Markets in Antigua, 1823–1831

Journal Article Slavery & Abolition · May 1, 1988 Full text Cite

Review of Slave emancipation in Cuba: the transition to free labor, 1860-1899 by Rebecca J. Scott

Journal Article Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide · January 1987 Cite

A Mockery of Freedom: The Status of Freedmen in Antigua Slave Society before 1760

Journal Article New West Indian Guide · 1985 Cite

’To Bring Their Offending Slaves to Justice’: Slave Compensation and Resistance in Antigua 1632-1763

Journal Article Caribbean Quarterly · September 1984 Cite

Review of Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies by Michael Craton

Journal Article The William and Mary Quarterly · October 1983 Full text Cite

The Most Noxious of Our Islands

Journal Article The Voice of St. Lucia · February 1979 Cite

Runaways in Seventeenth century Antigua West Indies

Journal Article Boletin de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe · 1979 Cite

A Fugitive from Slavery

Journal Article The Voice of St. Lucia · December 1978 Cite

The Antigua Slave Conspiracy of 1736: A Case Study of the Origins of Collective Resistance

Journal Article The William and Mary Quarterly · April 1978 Full text Cite

Review of Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman

Journal Article The Journal of Economic History · September 1977 Cite

Review of Slavery, Race and the American Revolution by Duncan J. MacLeod

Journal Article The William and Mary Quarterly · October 1975 Full text Cite