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Barry Gaspar

Barry Gaspar

Professor of History
History
dgaspar@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
306 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works

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

Book section · 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

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

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

Working the System: Antigua Slaves and Their Struggle to Live

Journal article Slavery and Abolition · December 1992 Cite

Afterword

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

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

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