Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the

transatlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of Slavery in Africa, enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Pass ...

. He earned his MA and PhD from the

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. His updating of James A. Rawley's ''The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History'', originally published by Norton in 1981, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005. 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.

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''.

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, 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''.

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, 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''.

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, 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", ''

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'', Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov. 2017), pp. 875–910. (With Robert A. Hurley)

References

External links

*http://www.slavevoyages.org Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington Historians of slavery Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{historian-stub