K H B Keefer
Biographic Data
| ID | 54752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K H B Keefer |
| GIVEN NAMES | K H B |
| FAMILY NAME | Keefer |
| SIGNATURE | KEEFER K H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2971-8801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Becoming Bayek
This article is an exploration of one of the bestselling single player RPGs from the Assassin's Creed series, 2017's Origins, as understood through a framework of cultural race and identity theory. This article relies on theories of identity and how we experience gameworlds as players, and how our sense of self is represented in virtual bodies. The article also considers and closely analyzes the game on its historicity—the franchise is one which …
Bunce Island
Visualizing the traumatic past is a perennial challenge, particularly for historians of the slave trade. New innovations in digital technologies may offer a transformative framework to address this problem. Epic Games and its Unreal Engine, developed for use in industries such as film and video game production, animation, architectural visualization, and virtual reality simulations, offer one potential avenue to efficiently visualize a challengin…
Poro, witchcraft and red water in early colonial Sierra Leone
The early decades of the nineteenth century were tumultuous within the Sierra Leone colony, as abolition was enforced and the slave trade actively prosecuted legally. Missionaries on the ground at the time provide new sources with which to understand the process of judicial enslavement. Their accounts offer not only first-hand observations, but also details into trials by ordeal for accusations of witchcraft, and enslavement as a penalty despite …
Documenting and Digitizing with Dignity
This article explores considerations arising from the digitization of the personnel records from the West African Frontier Force held at the Sierra Leone Public Archives. These records reflect a knowable and living past and contain sensitive and confidential information including medical and personal details not normally disclosed to the public. Best practice and ethics must be taken into account to protect the privacy of these subjects, but this…
Marked by fire
Perhaps one of the most visceral symbols used to represent the evils of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is the brand. The branding iron holds a profound semiotic weight due to its connotation with identity and how we collectively represent humans in opposition to animals. This article engages with the historical significance of the brand particularly in the context of slavery, tracing its influence through theories of identity as well as commoditi…
Making Money
"Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 412–413
Poro on Trial
In 1913, a Special Commission Court in Sierra Leone saw a series of trials concerning members of the Human Leopard Society, and conflated this society with the regional Poro Society. This article examines one of those trials and unearths motivations for murder and questions of bias. With the reinvention of identity in the shadow of slavery, a nuanced and complicated picture emerges of the situation. Though more questions than answers are offered …
The First Missionaries of The Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone, 1804–1816
Many early records in West Africa arise from missionary accounts. While they may contain rich ethnographic data, this detail should be approached only after analysis and consideration of the authors of the sources in question. In early Sierra Leone, important data was recorded on behalf of the English evangelical Church Missionary Society, but the missionaries reporting on the ground comprised an insufficiently studied group of German-speaking Pi…
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World
The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Rebecca Shumway is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the History Department. Her research interests are West African history, specifically focusing on Ghana/Gold Coast histo
Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814-1815
This research intersects with ongoing efforts to understand the identity of enslaved Africans entering the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Methods of reading scarification, along with its close analogue tattooing within the African context are a fundamental starting point for this study. Evidence for this approach may be found in the Registers of Liberated Africans, which are held at the Sierra Leone Public Archives at Fourah Bay College and at the N…
Marked by fire
Perhaps one of the most visceral symbols used to represent the evils of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is the brand. The branding iron holds a profound semiotic weight due to its connotation with identity and how we collectively represent humans in opposition to animals. This article engages with the historical significance of the brand particularly in the context of slavery, tracing its influence through theories of identity as well as commoditi…
Poro on Trial
In 1913, a Special Commission Court in Sierra Leone saw a series of trials concerning members of the Human Leopard Society, and conflated this society with the regional Poro Society. This article examines one of those trials and unearths motivations for murder and questions of bias. With the reinvention of identity in the shadow of slavery, a nuanced and complicated picture emerges of the situation. Though more questions than answers are offered …
Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814-1815
This research intersects with ongoing efforts to understand the identity of enslaved Africans entering the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Methods of reading scarification, along with its close analogue tattooing within the African context are a fundamental starting point for this study. Evidence for this approach may be found in the Registers of Liberated Africans, which are held at the Sierra Leone Public Archives at Fourah Bay College and at the N…
The First Missionaries of The Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone, 1804–1816
Many early records in West Africa arise from missionary accounts. While they may contain rich ethnographic data, this detail should be approached only after analysis and consideration of the authors of the sources in question. In early Sierra Leone, important data was recorded on behalf of the English evangelical Church Missionary Society, but the missionaries reporting on the ground comprised an insufficiently studied group of German-speaking Pi…
Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814-1815
This research intersects with ongoing efforts to understand the identity of enslaved Africans entering the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Methods of reading scarification, along with its close analogue tattooing within the African context are a fundamental starting point for this study. Evidence for this approach may be found in the Registers of Liberated Africans, which are held at the Sierra Leone Public Archives at Fourah Bay College and at the N…
The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Rebecca Shumway is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the History Department. Her research interests are West African history, specifically focusing on Ghana/Gold Coast histo
Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World
The First Missionaries of The Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone, 1804–1816
Many early records in West Africa arise from missionary accounts. While they may contain rich ethnographic data, this detail should be approached only after analysis and consideration of the authors of the sources in question. In early Sierra Leone, important data was recorded on behalf of the English evangelical Church Missionary Society, but the missionaries reporting on the ground comprised an insufficiently studied group of German-speaking Pi…
Making Money
"Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa’s Guinea Coast." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 412–413
Poro on Trial
In 1913, a Special Commission Court in Sierra Leone saw a series of trials concerning members of the Human Leopard Society, and conflated this society with the regional Poro Society. This article examines one of those trials and unearths motivations for murder and questions of bias. With the reinvention of identity in the shadow of slavery, a nuanced and complicated picture emerges of the situation. Though more questions than answers are offered …
Marked by fire
Perhaps one of the most visceral symbols used to represent the evils of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is the brand. The branding iron holds a profound semiotic weight due to its connotation with identity and how we collectively represent humans in opposition to animals. This article engages with the historical significance of the brand particularly in the context of slavery, tracing its influence through theories of identity as well as commoditi…
Documenting and Digitizing with Dignity
This article explores considerations arising from the digitization of the personnel records from the West African Frontier Force held at the Sierra Leone Public Archives. These records reflect a knowable and living past and contain sensitive and confidential information including medical and personal details not normally disclosed to the public. Best practice and ethics must be taken into account to protect the privacy of these subjects, but this…
Poro, witchcraft and red water in early colonial Sierra Leone
The early decades of the nineteenth century were tumultuous within the Sierra Leone colony, as abolition was enforced and the slave trade actively prosecuted legally. Missionaries on the ground at the time provide new sources with which to understand the process of judicial enslavement. Their accounts offer not only first-hand observations, but also details into trials by ordeal for accusations of witchcraft, and enslavement as a penalty despite …
Becoming Bayek
This article is an exploration of one of the bestselling single player RPGs from the Assassin's Creed series, 2017's Origins, as understood through a framework of cultural race and identity theory. This article relies on theories of identity and how we experience gameworlds as players, and how our sense of self is represented in virtual bodies. The article also considers and closely analyzes the game on its historicity—the franchise is one which …
Bunce Island
Visualizing the traumatic past is a perennial challenge, particularly for historians of the slave trade. New innovations in digital technologies may offer a transformative framework to address this problem. Epic Games and its Unreal Engine, developed for use in industries such as film and video game production, animation, architectural visualization, and virtual reality simulations, offer one potential avenue to efficiently visualize a challengin…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Law (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works)