Stephen D. Behrendt

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Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade and pre-colonial African history. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.[1] He updated James A. Rawley's The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, originally published in 1981.

Selected publications

Books

  • James A. Rawley The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History
  • Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup, The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (New York, Oxford University Press, 2010), 300pp.

Articles and chapters

  • Stephen D. Behrendt and Robert A. Hurley,'Liverpool as a Trading Port: Sailors’ Residences, African Migrants, Occupational Change and Probated Wealth', International Journal of Maritime History, 29, 4 (Nov. 2017), 875–910.
  • Stephen D. Behrendt and Peter M. Solar, 'Sail on, Albion: the Usefulness of Lloyd's Registers for Maritime History, 1760–1840', International Journal of Maritime History, 26, 3 (July 2014), 568–586
  • Stephen D. Behrendt, Carl W. Blackmun, Linda R. Gray and Robert A. Hurley, 'Designing a Multi-Source Relational Database: "Liverpool as a Trading Port, 1700-1850,"' International Journal of Maritime History, 22, 1 (June 2012), 265-300.
  • Stephen D. Behrendt, 'The Transatlantic Slave Trade,' in Robert Paquette and Mark Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010), 251-74.
  • Stephen D. Behrendt, ‘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, (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2009), 44-85, 461-85.
  • Stephen D. Behrendt, ‘Human Capital in the British Slave Trade,' in David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles, eds., Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery, (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007), 66-97.

References