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F20 Black Atlantic: Resources, Pedagogy, and Scholarship on the 18th Century Black Atlantic

Stedman's Surinam

Bentley, Jr. G.E. "Blake and Stedman as Costumiers: Curious Copies of Blake’s Engravings in 1821." Blake an Illustrated Quarterly 46.4 (Spring 2013)

Gaddy, Kristina. "A Soldier in Suriname Accidentally Wrote an Anti-Slavery Memoir." Ozy.com 25 July 2018

Rijks Museum. Surinam Timeline

Sutton, Elizabeth. Bittersweet: Sugar, Slavery, and Science in Dutch Suriname. Midwest Arcadia. Carleton College. 2014

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Week 11: Friday, November 6: Black New England 22 plain 2020-11-20T10:33:09-08:00
Read:
Choose at Least ONE Narrative:
- Stedman. “Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam.” (From Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Year’s Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam). (1838).
- Hammon. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760)
- Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge [read both summary and html of Memoir](1838)
- Zipporrah Potter Atkins (links to be posted.)
  - Johnson, Vivian R. “Zipporah Potter Atkins: The Only Seventeenth-Century African Woman to Purchase Land in Boston.” American Ancestors (Spring 2010)35-38 - You need to scroll for the article
  - Video of Johnson speaking on Atkins
  - Sanborn, Melinde Lutz “Zipporah in her Own Right: AN African in Early Boston” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 98 (March 2010):15-30
  - Incredibly insensitively titles Hofstra Law Review Article:Sanborn. The Case of the Headless Baby: The Case of the Headless Baby: Did Interracial Sex in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Lead to Infanticide and the Earliest Habeas Corpus Petition in America?
  - Choose at least TWO from Petitions, Court Cases and Confessions:
  - Prince Hall (petition documents, Massachusetts Historical Society Exhibit offering context)
  - Quock Walker (petition [no transcription], legal notes on his case, Massachusetts Historical Society Exhibit offering context on Walker and Freeman)
  - Elizabeth Mumbett Freeman (Brom and Bett v. Ashley [digital surrogates with transcription], state-sponsored site on the case [includes digital surrogates without transcription], more MHS digital exhibits)
  - Marlena Van Poppas (1739), Belinda Sutton [Royall] [use links at the bottom of this post to access the petitions] (1783, 1785), Malinda Rex (1839)
  - Garret: The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret (1738)
  Scholarship: Read at least TWO:
  Melish. Introduction, Chapter 1 and 5. from Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860
  Newell. Intro, Chapter 7, 8, and Epilogue from Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
  Clark-Pujara. Selections from Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
  Johnson, “’You Should Give them Blacks to Eat’: Waging Inter-American Wars,” American Quarterly 61:1 (March 2009): 65-92
  Warren. "The Cause of Her Grief: The Rape of A Slave in Early New England"
  Wilder. Ebony and Ivory Excerpt: read at least the intro and two chapters of your choice
  Brown University. CSSJ Report and Resources
  Recommended:
  Jones. Chapter 3: “Elleanor Eldridge: ‘Complexional Hinderance’ in Antebellum Rhode Island” A Dreadful Deceit
  Gagnon and Green articles on Britton Hammon in Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas.(
  Rushworth and Kahn. Native American Slaves in New France. Slate. 18 January 2016. Web.
  “Episode 064: Brett Rushforth, Native American Slavery in New France.”Ben Franklin’s World. 12 January 2016. Podcast
  Dillon, New World (165-214)
  *Stoler, “Tense and Tender,” in Haunted by Empire (23-67)
  Dawdy, “Proper Caresses,” Brown, “Body Work” in Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire (to be scanned);
  Brown. The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. (1883) – hard copies available in MSRC - going to see if I can make a digital surrogate)
  A Bibliography I put together ages ago
  And Another One
  Apparently I made a lot of these?
  Whatever this was for a related project: Profiles related to Colonial Boston's African American History
  Timeline I put together around the same time (some images might be broken)