Simon Newman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3977133 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon Newman |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | Newman |
| FIRMA | NEWMAN S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8733-6778 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Discussion of David W. Blight’s Yale and Slavery
Taken Not Given
Between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth centuries thousands of enslaved people were brought to the British Isles. Many were enslaved, and they were publicly bought and sold, marked by brands, collars and manacles, and some were sent from Britain into plantation slavery. Slavery did not, hoverer, flourish in Britain. By the time of Somerset v Stewart (1772) and Knight v Wedderburn (1778) the large majority of people of color in Britain…
Lucky Valley
Runaways London
This article explores how popular historical knowledge and understanding can be deepened by collaboration between historians, creative artists, and editors, publishers and those who support and develop the creative arts. Historical research into enslaved people who escaped in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London reveals much about their enslavers but very little about the enslaved people themselves. However, archival gaps and silences can b…
All spirited likely young lads’
The American War for Independence increased opportunities across the British Americas for people of African descent to embrace military service as a means of enhancing their rights. In Jamaica, a colony more vulnerable than ever before to enemy invasion, wartime disagreements between imperial officials and the planter elite gave free men of colour an opportunity to lay claim to fairer treatment and the rights of subjecthood through military servi…
Jamaica in the Age of Revolution by Trevor Burnard
Reviewed by: Jamaica in the Age of Revolution by Trevor Burnard Simon P. Newman Jamaica in the Age of Revolution By Trevor Burnard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. During recent decades our understanding of colonial British America has been transformed. Whatever our terminology or conceptual apparatus—perhaps Atlantic World, "vast early America" or global history—the thirteen mainland colonies that would eventually become th…
New England bound
New England bound: slavery and colonization in early America." Slavery & Abolition, 40(1), pp. 204–205
Freedom-Seeking Slaves in England and Scotland, 1700–1780
This will appear online only.This essay explores the experiences of enslaved people who sought to escape their bondage in England and Scotland during the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century. It argues that, while the conditions of their servitude in Britain may appear closer to those of white British servants than those of enslaved plantation labourers in the colonies, the experiences of these people were conditioned by the experiences…
Christian Slavery
Dangerous Neighbors
Despite the appearance of more and more scholarly work on the Haitian Revolution and its effects, we still know only parts of the story of how news of a mighty slave rebellion and the subsequent creation of the western hemisphere’s second republic was received in, and then influenced, the area’s first republic, the United States. This deeply researched and engaging volume goes a long way to filling that gap. And while this is a story that most hi…
Hidden in plain sight
This essay demonstrates how it was possible for some enslaved people in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Jamaica to escape and then remain free for lengthy periods. Most runaways did not escape from the island and instead found sanctuary with family or friends, in or near places they had previously lived, and some engaged in the same kinds of work they had undertaken when enslaved. These runaways had escaped from their bondage yet con…
Africans in the Old South
More than 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean and then enslaved in the Americas, a number so vast as to defy simple understanding. A growing number of historians are moving beyond the macrohistorical analysis of numbers and are instead focusing on the stories of individuals and small groups. In this deeply researched and beautifully written book, Randy J. Sparks adopts this microhistorical biographical approach. He maps…
Rethinking runaways in the British Atlantic World
This essay utilises four exceptional case studies to explore the various causes, experiences and results of escape from slavery in the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British Atlantic World. These are: Johnny Beckles in Barbados, Jamie Montgomery in Scotland, Castle Slaves at Cape Coast Castle on the West African Gold Coast; and Harriet and Beverly Hemings in Virginia. This essay illuminates the diverse forms of enslavement and esca…
The Price of Slavery
The Price of Slavery:Dividing Families and Divisions of Race Simon P. Newman (bio) A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia. By Richard S. Dunn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 552 pages. $39.95 (cloth). MORE than forty years after the publication of what remains the best study of the English planters who settled the Caribbean, Richard S. Dunn has completed his account of the enslaved. While Sugar …
Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776
Journal Article Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. Get access Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 293. $94.00. Simon P. Newman Simon P. Newman University of Glasgow [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, I…
Teaching in Europe and Researching in the United States
A New World of Labor The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America
The West African Ethnicity of the Enslaved in Jamaica
The African ethnicity of New World slaves was highly significant for the transmission of African social, cultural and religious beliefs and practices. This study employs the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis of present-day Jamaicans in order to assess the ethnic origins of their enslaved female ancestors (males, including white overseers and masters, do not contribute to mtDNA). The evidence suggests that the Gold Coast was the largest single so…
La Révolution française vue de loin
La Révolution française joua un rôle important dans le développement du premier système américain de partis politiques. La culture politique issue de la Révolution française, ses fêtes, ses insignes, ses chansons et son langage connurent tous une grande popularité auprès des Américains. Mais, au début des années 1790, les premiers partis politiques d'Amérique commencèrent à se diviser au sujet de la Révolution française. Les fédéralistes, derrièr…
Making Sense of Atlantic World Histories
This essay explores how historians have come to move beyond national histories with transnational approaches. For early American historians this has involved consideration of how the Atlantic world connected and affected societies in early modern Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The essay argues that there was not one but rather many different Atlantic worlds, shaped by the position, experiences, and perspective of each individual. Using the exa…
Losing the Faith
This essay explores the ways in which historians in Britain developed American history, focusing on attitudes towards the founding of the American republic. With reference to such historians as Goldwin Smith, Lord Acton, Winston Churchill, and Denis Brogan, the essay traces how they helped legitimate the United States as a subject of serious study, and the ways in which their work informed the creation of American Studies in Britain. Historians a…
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…
Embodied History
A Fatal Friendship
Journal Article A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. By Arnold A. Rogow. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8090-4753-5.) Get access Simon P. Newman Simon P. Newman University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1761–1762, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567613 Published: 01 Marc…
Memory's Nation
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Throughout the 1790s, the streets and public places of the new American republic were alive with often elaborate, sometimes unruly parades, feasts, and festivals. Simon Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, nonelite American men and wome…
Reading the Bodies of Early American Seafarers
I N one of his poignant vignettes, Herman Melville recorded the declining years of a man who had spent his entire working life at sea. Landsmen and women who encountered Daniel Orme were impressed by the features that defined him as a sailor, his moody and tanned complexion, his scars, the darned Guernsey frock he wore, and the crucifix tattooed on his chest. Interpreting these wens and knobs and distortions of the bark as the measure of the man,…
Freedom-Seeking Slaves in England and Scotland, 1700–1780
This will appear online only.This essay explores the experiences of enslaved people who sought to escape their bondage in England and Scotland during the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century. It argues that, while the conditions of their servitude in Britain may appear closer to those of white British servants than those of enslaved plantation labourers in the colonies, the experiences of these people were conditioned by the experiences…
Rethinking runaways in the British Atlantic World
This essay utilises four exceptional case studies to explore the various causes, experiences and results of escape from slavery in the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British Atlantic World. These are: Johnny Beckles in Barbados, Jamie Montgomery in Scotland, Castle Slaves at Cape Coast Castle on the West African Gold Coast; and Harriet and Beverly Hemings in Virginia. This essay illuminates the diverse forms of enslavement and esca…
The West African Ethnicity of the Enslaved in Jamaica
The African ethnicity of New World slaves was highly significant for the transmission of African social, cultural and religious beliefs and practices. This study employs the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis of present-day Jamaicans in order to assess the ethnic origins of their enslaved female ancestors (males, including white overseers and masters, do not contribute to mtDNA). The evidence suggests that the Gold Coast was the largest single so…
Principles or Men? George Washington and the Political Culture of National Leadership, 1776-1801
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…
Africans in the Old South
More than 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean and then enslaved in the Americas, a number so vast as to defy simple understanding. A growing number of historians are moving beyond the macrohistorical analysis of numbers and are instead focusing on the stories of individuals and small groups. In this deeply researched and beautifully written book, Randy J. Sparks adopts this microhistorical biographical approach. He maps…
The Culture of Sentiment
March 1939
Principles or Men? George Washington and the Political Culture of National Leadership, 1776-1801
The Culture of Sentiment
Before the Melting Pot
Parades and the Politics of the Street
"The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society, in whose streets people of all social classes jostled in festivals and parades that expressed a vibrant popular politics. Simon Newman's book is as lively as the tumultuous political culture he has mapped."—Linda K. Kerber, author of Women of the Republic
Reluctant Revolutionaries
Journal Article Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776. By Joseph S. Tiedemann. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. xiv, 342 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3237-5.) Get access Simon P. Newman Simon P. Newman University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1042–1043, https:/…
The Strength of a People
Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in a technologically advanced, global economy are rooted in the idea that the education of rising generations is crucial to the nation's future. In this bo…
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Journal Article Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic. By Simon P. Newman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820. By David Waldstreicher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this au…
The Council of Europe and Teacher Education
This chapter describes aspects of the Council of Europe's work that are relevant to teacher education and training, and especially some specific recommendations on this topic
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Throughout the 1790s, the streets and public places of the new American republic were alive with often elaborate, sometimes unruly parades, feasts, and festivals. Simon Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, nonelite American men and wome…
Reading the Bodies of Early American Seafarers
I N one of his poignant vignettes, Herman Melville recorded the declining years of a man who had spent his entire working life at sea. Landsmen and women who encountered Daniel Orme were impressed by the features that defined him as a sailor, his moody and tanned complexion, his scars, the darned Guernsey frock he wore, and the crucifix tattooed on his chest. Interpreting these wens and knobs and distortions of the bark as the measure of the man,…
Parades and the Politics of the Street
A Fatal Friendship
Journal Article A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. By Arnold A. Rogow. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998. xvi, 351 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8090-4753-5.) Get access Simon P. Newman Simon P. Newman University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1761–1762, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567613 Published: 01 Marc…
Memory's Nation
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…
Embodied History
Making Sense of Atlantic World Histories
This essay explores how historians have come to move beyond national histories with transnational approaches. For early American historians this has involved consideration of how the Atlantic world connected and affected societies in early modern Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The essay argues that there was not one but rather many different Atlantic worlds, shaped by the position, experiences, and perspective of each individual. Using the exa…
Losing the Faith
This essay explores the ways in which historians in Britain developed American history, focusing on attitudes towards the founding of the American republic. With reference to such historians as Goldwin Smith, Lord Acton, Winston Churchill, and Denis Brogan, the essay traces how they helped legitimate the United States as a subject of serious study, and the ways in which their work informed the creation of American Studies in Britain. Historians a…
La Révolution française vue de loin
La Révolution française joua un rôle important dans le développement du premier système américain de partis politiques. La culture politique issue de la Révolution française, ses fêtes, ses insignes, ses chansons et son langage connurent tous une grande popularité auprès des Américains. Mais, au début des années 1790, les premiers partis politiques d'Amérique commencèrent à se diviser au sujet de la Révolution française. Les fédéralistes, derrièr…
A New World of Labor The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America
The West African Ethnicity of the Enslaved in Jamaica
The African ethnicity of New World slaves was highly significant for the transmission of African social, cultural and religious beliefs and practices. This study employs the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis of present-day Jamaicans in order to assess the ethnic origins of their enslaved female ancestors (males, including white overseers and masters, do not contribute to mtDNA). The evidence suggests that the Gold Coast was the largest single so…
Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776
Journal Article Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. Get access Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 293. $94.00. Simon P. Newman Simon P. Newman University of Glasgow [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, I…
Teaching in Europe and Researching in the United States
The Price of Slavery
The Price of Slavery:Dividing Families and Divisions of Race Simon P. Newman (bio) A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia. By Richard S. Dunn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 552 pages. $39.95 (cloth). MORE than forty years after the publication of what remains the best study of the English planters who settled the Caribbean, Richard S. Dunn has completed his account of the enslaved. While Sugar …
Rethinking runaways in the British Atlantic World
This essay utilises four exceptional case studies to explore the various causes, experiences and results of escape from slavery in the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British Atlantic World. These are: Johnny Beckles in Barbados, Jamie Montgomery in Scotland, Castle Slaves at Cape Coast Castle on the West African Gold Coast; and Harriet and Beverly Hemings in Virginia. This essay illuminates the diverse forms of enslavement and esca…
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