Lorelle Semley
Biographic Data
| ID | 2367164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorelle Semley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Semley |
| SIGNATURE | SEMLEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0182-9382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Future Directions in History in Africa
With the 50th volume of History in Africa , the journal is not quite fifty years old. As we prepare for the 50th anniversary of the journal next year, it is a perfect time to examine the present and imagine the future of our field. Conceived as a journal concerned with historical method, scholarly debate, and sources, History in Africa has both generated and reflected significant epistemological change. But we also recognize that African history …
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. By Jessica Marie Johnson
It gave me pause to read and think about intimacy in all of its beauty, horror, and possibilities in the heat of the COVID-19 epidemic. As we bemoaned the loss of causal touches and friendly embraces, we recognized the new weight of shared space at home and in peering eyes on our screens. In Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, Jessica Marie Johnson demonstrates artfully that intimacy could have different, far-r…
Theorizing the Afropolitan Past and Present
The term Afropolitan-evoking the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-has enjoyed some salience in popular culture. However, much of the scholarly debate has focused on the elitism associated with the concept. Linked initially to short reflective pieces by Taiye Selasi in 2005 and Achille Mbembe in 2007, Afropolitanism has rarely been analyzed in historical contexts. The contributors engage th…
Beyond the Dark Side of the Port of the Moon: Rethinking the Role of Bordeaux's Slave Trade Past
Bordeaux is increasingly recognized as a "slave-trading port" (port négrier) that was built upon the wealth of merchants who shipped enslaved people and the fruits of enslaved labour. This article focuses on the enslaved and free women, men, and children whose multidirectional travel has also shaped the city since the eighteenth century. During the height of the eighteenth-century trade, some people of colour had the opportunity to redefine thems…
Beyond the Dark Side of the Port of the Moon: Rethinking the Role of Bordeaux’s Slave Trade Past
Bordeaux is increasingly recognized as a “slave-trading port” (port négrier) that was built upon the wealth of merchants who shipped enslaved people and the fruits of enslaved labour. This article focuses on the enslaved and free women, men, and children whose multidirectional travel has also shaped the city since the eighteenth century. During the height of the eighteenth-century trade, some people of colour had the opportunity to redefine thems…
African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019 While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and o…
To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire
Evolution Revolution” and the Journey from African Colonial Subject to French Citizen
Soon after Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou hurried from his tour of the United States to the French West African colony of Dahomey in 1925 to be at his dying father's side, the French governor there launched an inquiry to find out whether Houénou was the French citizen he claimed to be. Houénou had been born in Dahomey in 1887, but had spent most of his life studying and residing in France. Alhough he had only returned to Dahomey briefly in 1921, with …
Randy J. Sparks. Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Randy J. Sparks's study of a little-known port on the West African coast is an eloquent narrative history about unexpected connections in the Atlantic world. The story of Annamaboe (Anomabo), located in modern-day Ghana, is not a simple story of “triangular trade” between Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the eighteenth century. Instead, Sparks weaves a complex web of connections between Annamaboe and places as varied as London, England; Ne…
To Live and Die, Free and French
Haiti was not yet born when Toussaint Louverture wrote his 1801 Constitution as governor-general of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Louverture declared loyalty to the French Republic and displayed his independent power with a third article declaring, "Here, all men are born, live, and die, free and French." This essay examines the fraught construction of a new black citizenship based on slave emancipation and empire at the heart of Louvertur…
Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice
To Live and Die, Free and French
Haiti was not yet born when Toussaint Louverture wrote his 1801 Constitution as governor-general of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Louverture declared loyalty to the French Republic and displayed his independent power with a third article declaring, "Here, all men are born, live, and die, free and French." This essay examines the fraught construction of a new black citizenship based on slave emancipation and empire at the heart of Louvertur…
Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice
Beyond the Dark Side of the Port of the Moon: Rethinking the Role of Bordeaux's Slave Trade Past
Bordeaux is increasingly recognized as a "slave-trading port" (port négrier) that was built upon the wealth of merchants who shipped enslaved people and the fruits of enslaved labour. This article focuses on the enslaved and free women, men, and children whose multidirectional travel has also shaped the city since the eighteenth century. During the height of the eighteenth-century trade, some people of colour had the opportunity to redefine thems…
Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice
To Live and Die, Free and French
Haiti was not yet born when Toussaint Louverture wrote his 1801 Constitution as governor-general of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Louverture declared loyalty to the French Republic and displayed his independent power with a third article declaring, "Here, all men are born, live, and die, free and French." This essay examines the fraught construction of a new black citizenship based on slave emancipation and empire at the heart of Louvertur…
Evolution Revolution” and the Journey from African Colonial Subject to French Citizen
Soon after Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou hurried from his tour of the United States to the French West African colony of Dahomey in 1925 to be at his dying father's side, the French governor there launched an inquiry to find out whether Houénou was the French citizen he claimed to be. Houénou had been born in Dahomey in 1887, but had spent most of his life studying and residing in France. Alhough he had only returned to Dahomey briefly in 1921, with …
Randy J. Sparks. Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Randy J. Sparks's study of a little-known port on the West African coast is an eloquent narrative history about unexpected connections in the Atlantic world. The story of Annamaboe (Anomabo), located in modern-day Ghana, is not a simple story of “triangular trade” between Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the eighteenth century. Instead, Sparks weaves a complex web of connections between Annamaboe and places as varied as London, England; Ne…
To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire
African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660-1880
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019 While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and o…
Beyond the Dark Side of the Port of the Moon: Rethinking the Role of Bordeaux's Slave Trade Past
Bordeaux is increasingly recognized as a "slave-trading port" (port négrier) that was built upon the wealth of merchants who shipped enslaved people and the fruits of enslaved labour. This article focuses on the enslaved and free women, men, and children whose multidirectional travel has also shaped the city since the eighteenth century. During the height of the eighteenth-century trade, some people of colour had the opportunity to redefine thems…
Beyond the Dark Side of the Port of the Moon: Rethinking the Role of Bordeaux’s Slave Trade Past
Bordeaux is increasingly recognized as a “slave-trading port” (port négrier) that was built upon the wealth of merchants who shipped enslaved people and the fruits of enslaved labour. This article focuses on the enslaved and free women, men, and children whose multidirectional travel has also shaped the city since the eighteenth century. During the height of the eighteenth-century trade, some people of colour had the opportunity to redefine thems…
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. By Jessica Marie Johnson
It gave me pause to read and think about intimacy in all of its beauty, horror, and possibilities in the heat of the COVID-19 epidemic. As we bemoaned the loss of causal touches and friendly embraces, we recognized the new weight of shared space at home and in peering eyes on our screens. In Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, Jessica Marie Johnson demonstrates artfully that intimacy could have different, far-r…
Theorizing the Afropolitan Past and Present
The term Afropolitan-evoking the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-has enjoyed some salience in popular culture. However, much of the scholarly debate has focused on the elitism associated with the concept. Linked initially to short reflective pieces by Taiye Selasi in 2005 and Achille Mbembe in 2007, Afropolitanism has rarely been analyzed in historical contexts. The contributors engage th…
Future Directions in History in Africa
With the 50th volume of History in Africa , the journal is not quite fifty years old. As we prepare for the 50th anniversary of the journal next year, it is a perfect time to examine the present and imagine the future of our field. Conceived as a journal concerned with historical method, scholarly debate, and sources, History in Africa has both generated and reflected significant epistemological change. But we also recognize that African history …
History (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)