Henry B Lovejoy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4189888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry B Lovejoy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovejoy |
| SIGNATURE | LOVEJOY H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3875-1670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Queen Victoria’s ‘Liberated African’
In 1848, Dahomey's army enslaved a five-year-old Yoruba girl, named Aina, whose fate on the surface was unusual. She was given as a 'gift' to a British diplomat who presented her to Queen Victoria in England in 1850. This girl was 'liberated' according to anti-slavery law that was applied to Africans taken off slave ships, and she can be identified as a 'Liberated African'. The Queen's special interest in Aina was expressed further through her ba…
Conceptualizing 'Liberated Africans' and Slave Trade Abolition
A new survey of 'Liberated Africans' exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly underestimated. This analysis of the suppression of the slave trade draws upon a publicly accessible database and digital archive at LiberatedAfricans.org. A quantitative, spatial and chronological visualization of abolition in action, the website memorializes lived experiences of the victims of abolitio…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Who Did What When? Acknowledging Collaborative Contributions in Digital History Projects
Using the example of Liberated Africans (www.liberatedafricans.org/), this paper examines the difficulties of citing, and assigning credit for, highly collaborative digital humanities research projects in the context of tenure, promotion and the job market. This digital history project traces the lives of tens of thousands of individuals the British recaptured during their efforts to suppress and abolish the slave trade leaving Africa after 1807.…
Prieto
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto’s story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yorùbá speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land. In Havana, Prieto and most …
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …
Mapping Uncertainty
This historical GIS experiment attempts to map the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo alongside the departure of slave ships from the Bight of Benin. The achievements and drawbacks of mapping Africa’s pre-colonial past require an overview of the sources and methods used to illustrate the dissolution and formation of inland places during an intense period of intra-African conflict. By collating geopolitical data, it is possible to represent on annual …
Ọṣun becomes Cuban
In Cuba, the goddess of rivers, feminine beauty and motherhood, known as Ọ̀ṣun, became equated with Cuba’s patron saint, who is portrayed as a mixed-race female known as La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. This article explores how Cuban popular culture, specifically surrounding the “mulata” stock character, entered the lexicon of a West African religion during Cuba’s independence movements in the second half of the nineteenth century. The mytholo…
The Registers of Liberated Africans of the Havana Slave Trade Commission
The Registers of Liberated Africans that were compiled in the course of British anti-slave trade suppression contain detailed biographical information for individuals who were liberated from slave ships according to international law. These records are invaluable for an analysis of the demography of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and hence it is necessary to assess critically their generation, including who made them and for what reasons. By foc…
Lucumí’, ‘Terranova’, and the Origins of the Yoruba Nation
The etymology of ‘Lucumí’ and ‘Terranova’, ethnonyms used to describe Yoruba-speaking people during the Atlantic slave trade, helps to reconceptualize the origins of a Yoruba nation. While there is general agreement that ‘Lucumí’ refers to the Yoruba in diaspora, the origin of the term remains unclear. We argue ‘Lucumí’ was first used in the Benin kingdom as early as the fifteenth century, as revealed through the presence of Olukumi communities i…
Redrawing historical maps of the Bight of Benin Hinterland, c. 1780
Given advances in digital cartography, mapmaking is straightforward, affordable, accurate and easy to scale. In the absence of reliable contemporary maps of pre-colonial sub-Saharan West Africa, scholars have been compiling paper-based illustrations of the continent for different regions, periods and purposes. In consequence, there is a large collection of maps thematically, spatially and temporally fragmented throughout the historiography of Afr…
Lucumí’, ‘Terranova’, and the Origins of the Yoruba Nation
The etymology of ‘Lucumí’ and ‘Terranova’, ethnonyms used to describe Yoruba-speaking people during the Atlantic slave trade, helps to reconceptualize the origins of a Yoruba nation. While there is general agreement that ‘Lucumí’ refers to the Yoruba in diaspora, the origin of the term remains unclear. We argue ‘Lucumí’ was first used in the Benin kingdom as early as the fifteenth century, as revealed through the presence of Olukumi communities i…
Redrawing historical maps of the Bight of Benin Hinterland, c. 1780
Given advances in digital cartography, mapmaking is straightforward, affordable, accurate and easy to scale. In the absence of reliable contemporary maps of pre-colonial sub-Saharan West Africa, scholars have been compiling paper-based illustrations of the continent for different regions, periods and purposes. In consequence, there is a large collection of maps thematically, spatially and temporally fragmented throughout the historiography of Afr…
Mapping Uncertainty
This historical GIS experiment attempts to map the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo alongside the departure of slave ships from the Bight of Benin. The achievements and drawbacks of mapping Africa’s pre-colonial past require an overview of the sources and methods used to illustrate the dissolution and formation of inland places during an intense period of intra-African conflict. By collating geopolitical data, it is possible to represent on annual …
The Registers of Liberated Africans of the Havana Slave Trade Commission
The Registers of Liberated Africans that were compiled in the course of British anti-slave trade suppression contain detailed biographical information for individuals who were liberated from slave ships according to international law. These records are invaluable for an analysis of the demography of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and hence it is necessary to assess critically their generation, including who made them and for what reasons. By foc…
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …
Ọṣun becomes Cuban
In Cuba, the goddess of rivers, feminine beauty and motherhood, known as Ọ̀ṣun, became equated with Cuba’s patron saint, who is portrayed as a mixed-race female known as La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. This article explores how Cuban popular culture, specifically surrounding the “mulata” stock character, entered the lexicon of a West African religion during Cuba’s independence movements in the second half of the nineteenth century. The mytholo…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Redrawing historical maps of the Bight of Benin Hinterland, c. 1780
Given advances in digital cartography, mapmaking is straightforward, affordable, accurate and easy to scale. In the absence of reliable contemporary maps of pre-colonial sub-Saharan West Africa, scholars have been compiling paper-based illustrations of the continent for different regions, periods and purposes. In consequence, there is a large collection of maps thematically, spatially and temporally fragmented throughout the historiography of Afr…
Lucumí’, ‘Terranova’, and the Origins of the Yoruba Nation
The etymology of ‘Lucumí’ and ‘Terranova’, ethnonyms used to describe Yoruba-speaking people during the Atlantic slave trade, helps to reconceptualize the origins of a Yoruba nation. While there is general agreement that ‘Lucumí’ refers to the Yoruba in diaspora, the origin of the term remains unclear. We argue ‘Lucumí’ was first used in the Benin kingdom as early as the fifteenth century, as revealed through the presence of Olukumi communities i…
The Registers of Liberated Africans of the Havana Slave Trade Commission
The Registers of Liberated Africans that were compiled in the course of British anti-slave trade suppression contain detailed biographical information for individuals who were liberated from slave ships according to international law. These records are invaluable for an analysis of the demography of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and hence it is necessary to assess critically their generation, including who made them and for what reasons. By foc…
Ọṣun becomes Cuban
In Cuba, the goddess of rivers, feminine beauty and motherhood, known as Ọ̀ṣun, became equated with Cuba’s patron saint, who is portrayed as a mixed-race female known as La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre. This article explores how Cuban popular culture, specifically surrounding the “mulata” stock character, entered the lexicon of a West African religion during Cuba’s independence movements in the second half of the nineteenth century. The mytholo…
Prieto
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto’s story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yorùbá speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land. In Havana, Prieto and most …
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …
Mapping Uncertainty
This historical GIS experiment attempts to map the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo alongside the departure of slave ships from the Bight of Benin. The achievements and drawbacks of mapping Africa’s pre-colonial past require an overview of the sources and methods used to illustrate the dissolution and formation of inland places during an intense period of intra-African conflict. By collating geopolitical data, it is possible to represent on annual …
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Who Did What When? Acknowledging Collaborative Contributions in Digital History Projects
Using the example of Liberated Africans (www.liberatedafricans.org/), this paper examines the difficulties of citing, and assigning credit for, highly collaborative digital humanities research projects in the context of tenure, promotion and the job market. This digital history project traces the lives of tens of thousands of individuals the British recaptured during their efforts to suppress and abolish the slave trade leaving Africa after 1807.…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Queen Victoria’s ‘Liberated African’
In 1848, Dahomey's army enslaved a five-year-old Yoruba girl, named Aina, whose fate on the surface was unusual. She was given as a 'gift' to a British diplomat who presented her to Queen Victoria in England in 1850. This girl was 'liberated' according to anti-slavery law that was applied to Africans taken off slave ships, and she can be identified as a 'Liberated African'. The Queen's special interest in Aina was expressed further through her ba…
Conceptualizing 'Liberated Africans' and Slave Trade Abolition
A new survey of 'Liberated Africans' exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly underestimated. This analysis of the suppression of the slave trade draws upon a publicly accessible database and digital archive at LiberatedAfricans.org. A quantitative, spatial and chronological visualization of abolition in action, the website memorializes lived experiences of the victims of abolitio…
History (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Diaspora (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works)