Stephen D. Behrendt Explained

Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.^[1]

His updating of James A. Rawley's The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, originally published by Norton in 1981,^[2] was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005.^[3] In 2010, he co-edited an edition of The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader with A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Selected publications

Books

• Rawley, James A. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. (Reviser)
• The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010. (With A.J.H. Latham and David Northrup)

Articles and chapters

• "Human Capital in the British Slave Trade" in David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles, eds., Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2007. pp. 66-97.
• "Ecology, Seasonality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, eds., Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009. pp. 44-85 & 461-85.
• "The Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Robert Paquette and Mark Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. pp. 251-74.
• "Sail on, Albion: the Usefulness of Lloyd's Registers for Maritime History, 1760–1840", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 568–586. (With Peter M. Solar)
• "Liverpool as a Trading Port: Sailors’ Residences, African Migrants, Occupational Change and Probated Wealth", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov. 2017), pp. 875–910. (With Robert A. Hurley)

External links

• http://www.slavevoyages.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steve Behrendt - School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations - Victoria University of Wellington. www.victoria.ac.nz.
2. James A. Rawley. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New York: W. W. Norton. 1981. Pp. xiv, 452. $24.95. Herbert S.. Klein. 1 April 1983. The American Historical Review. 88. 2. 361–362. academic.oup.com. 10.1086/ahr/88.2.361.
3. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition. By JAMES RAWLEY with STEPHEN D. BEHRENDT. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+441. £38.5 (ISBN 0-8032-3961-0).. Patrick. Manning. The Journal of African History. 47. 3. 529. 10.1017/S0021853706452439. 2006. 163066637 .
4. Book: The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader. 8 March 2010. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-537618-0 .
5. The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (review). Paul E.. Lovejoy. 5 May 2011. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 12. 1. 10.1353/cch.2011.0004. 161970987 .
6. A FIRST HAND PERSPECTIVE ON THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE - The Diary of Antera Duke, An Eighteenth-century African Slave Trader. By Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. latham, and David Northrup. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+300. £45/$75 hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-537618-0).. Walter. Hawthorne. The Journal of African History. 51. 3. 411–412. 10.1017/S002185371000054X. 2010. 232253398 .