Douglas B Chambers
Biographic Data
| ID | 131678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas B Chambers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambers |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERS D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5275-5427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
'My own nation'
When Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-97) was taken on board the slave ship that carried him out of the Bight of Biafra he feared for his life. Everything he saw that day seemed to confirm these initial fears that the whites (whom he suspected were evil spirits) had acquired him in order to eat him or perhaps to sacrifice him to their gods. Equiano also saw, however, other people 'of my own nation' on board which, as he later remembered, 'in a small degr…
There Was A Country
Even at a perfunctory level, a comparative look at the conflicts that took place in the US between the Union and the Confederacy and the one between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra in 1966-1970 reveals enough to corroborate Chinua Achebe's bold charge made in his last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, that the Igbo have been wrongly persecuted in Nigeria. Confirmatory pointers to hatred and resentment of the Igbo can sti…
Slave trade merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803
The Spanish era (1763–1803) saw the “re-Africanization” of Louisiana, and yet the colonial slave trade to Louisiana remains relatively undocumented. This essay seeks to clarify the Spanish-era trade by focusing on colonial slave-trade merchants in New Orleans in Atlantic perspective. Using the online Louisiana Slave Database, the paper identifies over two dozen principal slave-trade merchants, outlines the structure of the slaving mercantile comm…
Murder at Montpelier
Ethnicity in the Diaspora
There is abundant evidence that, throughout the Atlantic world in the era of the slave-trade, many enslaved people identified themselves, or were so identified by others, as members of African-derived named groups. Much of this evidence is ascriptive, and was used by Europeans to identify individual slaves in terms of ‘types’ of Africans. The enslaved people themselves, however, could be active agents in defining the names of these ‘nations’, as …
My own nation’
When Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-97) was taken on board the slave ship that carried him out of the Bight of Biafra he feared for his life. Everything he saw that day seemed to confirm these initial fears that the whites (whom he suspected were evil spirits) had acquired him in order to eat him or perhaps to sacrifice him to their gods. Equiano also saw, however, other people 'of my own nation' on board which, as he later remembered, 'in a small degr…
The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia
The making of Montpelier
James Madison succeeded in making Montpelier a diversified piedmont plantation by utilizing family connections, land, slaves, and capital resources in the pursuit of profit. Madison was an opportunist, with one eye always cocked to the possibility of turning a profitable deal. He took the main chance when he could, as did his father and grandfather before him. He could be ruthless, especially in allocating the labor of his slaves to meet his prod…
My own nation’
When Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-97) was taken on board the slave ship that carried him out of the Bight of Biafra he feared for his life. Everything he saw that day seemed to confirm these initial fears that the whites (whom he suspected were evil spirits) had acquired him in order to eat him or perhaps to sacrifice him to their gods. Equiano also saw, however, other people 'of my own nation' on board which, as he later remembered, 'in a small degr…
Ethnicity in the Diaspora
There is abundant evidence that, throughout the Atlantic world in the era of the slave-trade, many enslaved people identified themselves, or were so identified by others, as members of African-derived named groups. Much of this evidence is ascriptive, and was used by Europeans to identify individual slaves in terms of ‘types’ of Africans. The enslaved people themselves, however, could be active agents in defining the names of these ‘nations’, as …
There Was A Country
Even at a perfunctory level, a comparative look at the conflicts that took place in the US between the Union and the Confederacy and the one between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra in 1966-1970 reveals enough to corroborate Chinua Achebe's bold charge made in his last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, that the Igbo have been wrongly persecuted in Nigeria. Confirmatory pointers to hatred and resentment of the Igbo can sti…
The making of Montpelier
James Madison succeeded in making Montpelier a diversified piedmont plantation by utilizing family connections, land, slaves, and capital resources in the pursuit of profit. Madison was an opportunist, with one eye always cocked to the possibility of turning a profitable deal. He took the main chance when he could, as did his father and grandfather before him. He could be ruthless, especially in allocating the labor of his slaves to meet his prod…
The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia
My own nation’
When Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-97) was taken on board the slave ship that carried him out of the Bight of Biafra he feared for his life. Everything he saw that day seemed to confirm these initial fears that the whites (whom he suspected were evil spirits) had acquired him in order to eat him or perhaps to sacrifice him to their gods. Equiano also saw, however, other people 'of my own nation' on board which, as he later remembered, 'in a small degr…
Ethnicity in the Diaspora
There is abundant evidence that, throughout the Atlantic world in the era of the slave-trade, many enslaved people identified themselves, or were so identified by others, as members of African-derived named groups. Much of this evidence is ascriptive, and was used by Europeans to identify individual slaves in terms of ‘types’ of Africans. The enslaved people themselves, however, could be active agents in defining the names of these ‘nations’, as …
Murder at Montpelier
Slave trade merchants of Spanish New Orleans, 1763–1803
The Spanish era (1763–1803) saw the “re-Africanization” of Louisiana, and yet the colonial slave trade to Louisiana remains relatively undocumented. This essay seeks to clarify the Spanish-era trade by focusing on colonial slave-trade merchants in New Orleans in Atlantic perspective. Using the online Louisiana Slave Database, the paper identifies over two dozen principal slave-trade merchants, outlines the structure of the slaving mercantile comm…
'My own nation'
When Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-97) was taken on board the slave ship that carried him out of the Bight of Biafra he feared for his life. Everything he saw that day seemed to confirm these initial fears that the whites (whom he suspected were evil spirits) had acquired him in order to eat him or perhaps to sacrifice him to their gods. Equiano also saw, however, other people 'of my own nation' on board which, as he later remembered, 'in a small degr…
There Was A Country
Even at a perfunctory level, a comparative look at the conflicts that took place in the US between the Union and the Confederacy and the one between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra in 1966-1970 reveals enough to corroborate Chinua Achebe's bold charge made in his last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, that the Igbo have been wrongly persecuted in Nigeria. Confirmatory pointers to hatred and resentment of the Igbo can sti…
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