Randy M Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 721162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randy M Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xavier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6433-9025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Traders in Men
The volume of the British slave trade dramatically increased after 1700, from some 430,000 African captives in the previous two centuries combined to 2.85 million in the eighteenth century. The key to understanding this expansion, Nicholas Radburn argues in his compelling Traders in Men, are the actions taken by slave-trading merchants in Britain, Africa, and British America. For Radburn, focusing on these little-studied merchants offers an oppor…
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World, by Edward B. Rugemer
Christer Petley. White Fury
White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution is a biographical study of Simon Taylor, one of the richest sugar planters to have ever lived in the British Caribbean. Christer Petley uses hundreds of Taylor’s surviving letters to understand the world of Jamaican slavery though the eyes of a powerful planter who experienced some of the most important transformations in Atlantic history, including the American and Haitian Revolutions,…
Undercurrents of Power
The first written account of surfing, according to most scholars, dates to 1778 in Hawaii. Yet, as Kevin Dawson (a surfer himself) points out, those scholars are “a hundred and forty years too late, and some ten thousand miles off the mark,” because the first account of surfing was actually recorded in the 1640s on Africa's Gold Coast (p. 28). This is one of many surprises that readers will find in Dawson's enlightening Undercurrents of Power, wh…
Contested bodies
Contested bodies: pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica." Slavery & Abolition, 39(2), pp. 439–440
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean depicts the human drama in which enslaved Africans struggled against their enslavers and environment, and one another. The book reorients Atlantic slavery studies by revealing how social relationships, cultural practices, and political strategies reflected an unrelenting fight to survive
Husbands and Fathers
We know relatively little about enslaved men, especially African-born men in British West Indian slave societies, in their roles as fathers and husbands within slave households. A generation of scholarship on gender in slave societies has tended to neglect enslaved men, thus allowing old understandings of enslaved men as not very involved with families drawn from biased planter sources to continue to shape scholarship. This article instead draws …
The cultural politics of obeah
In November 2015, two men in Antigua were arrested for 'the practicing of Obeah'. The Attorney General praised the country's 'Christian community' for its help identifying the alleged obeah practit
Florence Hall's ‘Memoirs’
This essay presents the previously unpublished ‘Memoirs’ of Florence Hall, an African-born woman enslaved in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. The brief text describes Hall's childhood in Igboland (now southeastern Nigeria), her enslavement and journey to the Atlantic coast, her experience of the Middle Passage, and her arrival in Jamaica. There, the narrative abruptly cuts off. Evidently, the pages containing the rest of her story were lost. The…
The "Bad Business" of Obeah
The cultural politics of obeah
In November 2015, two men in Antigua were arrested for 'the practicing of Obeah'. The Attorney General praised the country's 'Christian community' for its help identifying the alleged obeah practit
Florence Hall's ‘Memoirs’
This essay presents the previously unpublished ‘Memoirs’ of Florence Hall, an African-born woman enslaved in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. The brief text describes Hall's childhood in Igboland (now southeastern Nigeria), her enslavement and journey to the Atlantic coast, her experience of the Middle Passage, and her arrival in Jamaica. There, the narrative abruptly cuts off. Evidently, the pages containing the rest of her story were lost. The…
Undercurrents of Power
The first written account of surfing, according to most scholars, dates to 1778 in Hawaii. Yet, as Kevin Dawson (a surfer himself) points out, those scholars are “a hundred and forty years too late, and some ten thousand miles off the mark,” because the first account of surfing was actually recorded in the 1640s on Africa's Gold Coast (p. 28). This is one of many surprises that readers will find in Dawson's enlightening Undercurrents of Power, wh…
The "Bad Business" of Obeah
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
Husbands and Fathers
We know relatively little about enslaved men, especially African-born men in British West Indian slave societies, in their roles as fathers and husbands within slave households. A generation of scholarship on gender in slave societies has tended to neglect enslaved men, thus allowing old understandings of enslaved men as not very involved with families drawn from biased planter sources to continue to shape scholarship. This article instead draws …
The "Bad Business" of Obeah
Florence Hall's ‘Memoirs’
This essay presents the previously unpublished ‘Memoirs’ of Florence Hall, an African-born woman enslaved in early nineteenth-century Jamaica. The brief text describes Hall's childhood in Igboland (now southeastern Nigeria), her enslavement and journey to the Atlantic coast, her experience of the Middle Passage, and her arrival in Jamaica. There, the narrative abruptly cuts off. Evidently, the pages containing the rest of her story were lost. The…
The cultural politics of obeah
In November 2015, two men in Antigua were arrested for 'the practicing of Obeah'. The Attorney General praised the country's 'Christian community' for its help identifying the alleged obeah practit
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean depicts the human drama in which enslaved Africans struggled against their enslavers and environment, and one another. The book reorients Atlantic slavery studies by revealing how social relationships, cultural practices, and political strategies reflected an unrelenting fight to survive
Husbands and Fathers
We know relatively little about enslaved men, especially African-born men in British West Indian slave societies, in their roles as fathers and husbands within slave households. A generation of scholarship on gender in slave societies has tended to neglect enslaved men, thus allowing old understandings of enslaved men as not very involved with families drawn from biased planter sources to continue to shape scholarship. This article instead draws …
Contested bodies
Contested bodies: pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica." Slavery & Abolition, 39(2), pp. 439–440
Undercurrents of Power
The first written account of surfing, according to most scholars, dates to 1778 in Hawaii. Yet, as Kevin Dawson (a surfer himself) points out, those scholars are “a hundred and forty years too late, and some ten thousand miles off the mark,” because the first account of surfing was actually recorded in the 1640s on Africa's Gold Coast (p. 28). This is one of many surprises that readers will find in Dawson's enlightening Undercurrents of Power, wh…
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World, by Edward B. Rugemer
Christer Petley. White Fury
White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution is a biographical study of Simon Taylor, one of the richest sugar planters to have ever lived in the British Caribbean. Christer Petley uses hundreds of Taylor’s surviving letters to understand the world of Jamaican slavery though the eyes of a powerful planter who experienced some of the most important transformations in Atlantic history, including the American and Haitian Revolutions,…
Rebecca’s Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean
In 1832, an elderly enslaved woman named Rebecca told the Protector of Slaves in Demerara (part of colonial British Guiana) a harrowing story that, she hoped, would secure her freedom and that of her grown children. Decades earlier, barely past childhood, she had been sexually exploited by the captain of the slave ship that carried her across the Atlantic. He promised to free her if she bore his child. Her freedom claim, now in the archives of th…
Traders in Men
The volume of the British slave trade dramatically increased after 1700, from some 430,000 African captives in the previous two centuries combined to 2.85 million in the eighteenth century. The key to understanding this expansion, Nicholas Radburn argues in his compelling Traders in Men, are the actions taken by slave-trading merchants in Britain, Africa, and British America. For Radburn, focusing on these little-studied merchants offers an oppor…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 works) · History (8 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)