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Janet J. Ewald

Associate Professor Emerita of History
History
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
224 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Africa’s slave trade to the Islamic world began centuries before the Atlantic slave trade and lasted somewhat longer, in some places into the twentieth Century. The African slaves challenged slavery by rebelling-most successfully in Saint Domingue. Slavery ... Full text Cite

Bondsmen, Freedmen, and Maritime Industrial Transport, 1840-1900

Journal Article Slavery and Abolition · September 2010 Abstract: This essay argues that African freedmen who laboured in ships’ stokeholes played vital roles during the first decades of the development of British steam enterprise in the Indian Ocean. These freedmen represented one aspect of the simultaneous gl ... Cite

Bondsmen, freedmen, and maritime industrial transportation, c.1840-1900

Journal Article Slavery and Abolition · September 1, 2010 This essay argues that African freedmen who laboured in ships' stokeholes played vital roles during the first decades of the development of British steam enterprise in the Indian Ocean. These freedmen represented one aspect of the simultaneous globalizatio ... Full text Cite

The Turkiyya

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Africa: East

Chapter · 1998 Cite

African Slavery and the African Slave Trade: A Review Essay

Journal Article The American Historical Review · 1992 Cite

Speaking, Writing, and Authority: Explorations in and from the Kingdom of Taqali

Journal Article Comparative Studies in Society and History · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

The Nile Valley System and the Red Sea Slave Trade, 1820-1880

Journal Article Slavery and Abolition · 1988 Cite

Speaking, Writing, and Authority: Explorations in and from the Kingdom of Taqali

Journal Article Comparative Studies in Society and History · 1988 Cite

Foxes in the field: An essay on an historical methodology

Journal Article African Studies Review · January 1, 1987 Full text Cite

Foxes in the Field: An Essay on Methodology

Journal Article African Studies Review · 1987 Cite

Experience and Speculation: History and Founding Stories in the Kingdom of Taqali

Journal Article International Journal of African Historical Studies · 1985 Full text Link to item Cite