“Women, the Slave Trade, and Resistance, from West Africa through the Middle Passage”

A colloq with Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill). Please note that all colloquia papers are pre-circulated. Please register via the link below to receive a copy.

How did the Atlantic slave trade transform women’s lives in African societies? How did female captives endure and confront the Middle Passage?  How did women shape insurrections at sea?  This paper offers an explanation grounded in African history for the disproportionate role of women in slave ship revolts.

Lisa Lindsay is Professor and former Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  A specialist in the history of southwestern Nigeria, the slave trade, and the Atlantic world, she is the author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa, which won the African Studies Association’s “best book” prize.  Previous publications include Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria (2003); Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (2008); and the co-edited volumes Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (with Stephan Miescher, 2003) and Biography and the Black Atlantic (with John Wood Sweet, 2014).  She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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