By Associate Professor Emma Christopher

Journal articles

Christopher E, 2009, 'Women and Slavery. Volume 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval Atlantic', CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES, 43, pp. 583 - 587, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000211632300008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2009, 'Women and Slavery. Volume 2: The Modern Atlantic', CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES, 43, pp. 583 - 587, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000211632300009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2009, '‘From the Ballad Singing Monkey to the Cunning Savages: The Voyage to Found a Penal Colony at the Mouth of the Orange River’', South African Historical Journal

Christopher E, 2008, 'A “Disgrace to the very Colour”: Perceptions of Blackness and Whiteness in the founding of Sierra Leone and Botany Bay', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.0.0025

Christopher E, 2007, 'If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY, 19, pp. 411 - 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387140701900160

Christopher E, 2007, 'Reviews of Emma Christopher, Slave Ship Sailors And Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 With a Response by Emma Christopher', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY, 19, pp. 287 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387140701900115

Christopher E, 2007, 'Slave Ship Sailors: A Roundtable Response', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY, 19, pp. 333 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387140701900116

Christopher E, 2004, '“’Ten Thousand Times Worse than the Convicts’: Rebellious Sailors, Convict Transportation and the Struggle for Freedom”', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 5, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=200412106;res=IELAPA

Christopher E, 2004, 'Another head of the hydra?', Atlantic Studies, 1, pp. 145 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1478881042000278721

Christopher E, 2001, 'Black Hands in a Black Trade', Times Higher Education Supplement

Conference Papers

Christopher E, 2021, 'Emma Christopher - Importing and Exploiting People from Three Continents: A Story of Three Generations of one British Family', ACU Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, presented at Trans-colonial connections: mobility and transculturation in the British colonial south, 1770-1890, ACU Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, 22 June 2021

Christopher E, 2021, '“To Reinvigorate our Culture”: secret society ‘survivals’ in the diaspora and at ‘home’', Uppsala University, presented at #MANSAUppsala2021: Beyond Crisis and Insecurity in West Africa International West Africa Conference, Uppsala University, 16 June 2021, https://mansaconference2020.home.blog/

Christopher E, 2021, 'A Divided Diaspora: from Gallinas to Cuba and Puerto Rico', RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES, presented at 15th International African Studies Conference “Destinies of Africa in the Modern World”, RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES, 24 May 2021

Christopher E, 2021, '‘I am not a Kanaka or a N____’: slave pasts and kidnapped men in the Pacific'', in Lydon J (ed.), UWA, presented at Writing Slavery into Australian History, UWA, 25 February 2021, https://www.theaha.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Program-Writing-Slavery.pdf

Christopher E, 2016, ''Azotando a un caballo muerto': El debate sobre Herskovits, la trata de esclavos ilegal, y el origen de los Gangá‐Longobá en Cuba” / “Unintentionally Beating a Dead Horse: The Herskovits Debate, the Illegal Slave Trade, and the Origins of Cuba’s Gangá‐Longobá”', Havana, Cuba, presented at EL COMERCIO DE ESCLAVOS A CUBA: NUEVAS PERSPECTIVAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN THE SLAVE TRADE TO CUBA: NEW RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES, Havana, Cuba, 09 June 2016 - 11 June 2016, https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/files/alari_hutchins_center/files/the_slave_trade_to_cuba_el_comercio_de_esclavos_hacia_cuba_jun._9-11_2016_1.pdf

Conference Presentations

Christopher E, 2024, 'Blackness and ‘Enslaveability’ in the aftermath of abolition: ‘Oceanic Negroes’ and Black Sailors in the Pacific People Trade.', presented at Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World: 1750-1888 Copenhagen 2024, University of Copenhagen, 13 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, https://inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/imagining-emancipation/

Christopher E, 2024, 'The Use of History in the Challenging Present: The Case of the Río Yurumanguí', presented at LASA2024 Reacción y Resistencia: Imaginar Futuros Posibles en las Américas, Bogota, Colombia, 12 June 2024 - 15 June 2024, https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2024/

Christopher E, 2023, 'Blackness in the aftermath of abolition: the case of South Sea Islanders in Australia', presented at Australian Legacies of Slavery, State Library of Western Australia, 01 December 2023 - 02 December 2023, https://australian-legacies-slavery.org/events/australian-legacies-of-slavery-conference-2023

Christopher E, 2023, 'Linking Voyages and Plantations: creating an online database of South Sea Islander voyages', presented at ASHA 2023 Conference: The Past in the Present for Historical Archaeology, Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre, 19 September 2023, https://asha.org.au/past-conferences/2023-asha-conference/

Christopher E, 2023, '“Oceanic Negroes”: British Slavery’s Aftermath and Pacific Labourers in Queensland', presented at GLOBAL VOYAGES, LOCAL SITES: THE LONG SHADOW OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN AND GERMAN PACIFIC, Bonn Center for Dependency and Picture credits: Volker Lannnert/University of Bonn; cover image: iStock.com/filo Slavery Studies (BCDSS) University of Bonn, 20 June 2023 - 22 June 2023, https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/events/dependency-and-slavery-studies-workshop/view

Christopher E, 2023, '‘Black is not the Skin’: Slavery, Freedom, and the Fight for Survival in the Río Yurumanguí', presented at Workshop on Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888, University of Exeter, 02 June 2023 - 03 June 2023, https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/cpt/infocus/news/articles/workshoponimaginingemancip.php

Christopher E, 2022, 'ʻKidnapping Cannibalsʼ: The Scandal Over Recruitment and the British/German Division of New Guinea', presented at Slavery and Dependency: New Perspectives on Heritage and German Global History, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, 06 July 2022 - 08 July 2022, https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/news/news-bcdss/new-perspectives-on-cultural-heritage-and-german-global-history

Christopher E, 2022, 'Reinventing the “necessary" Blackness of sugar workers: Atlantic Racialisation’s Pacific Legacies', presented at Colonising Companies, Commodities, and Labour in the Western Pacific, Department of Modern History and Society, NTNU Dragvoll, 13 June 2022 - 14 June 2022, https://d.docs.live.net/documents/1292402039/1300284206/symposiumColonisingCompanies_programme2022jun.pdf/cd68c552-99fb-aa47-60f1-2002b429b6ac?t=1655121147559

Christopher E, 2018, 'The Trope of the Ruined Planter and Australia’s Sugar Pioneers', presented at Ending Slavery in the Caribbean and Beginning Settler Colonialism in Australasia, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, 14 December 2018

Christopher E, 2018, 'When Legacies of 'old' slavery and Methods of resisting 'new' slavery overlap: The Banta of Sierra Leone', presented at Between Slavery and Post-Slavery: Citizenship, Dependence and Abolitionism in African and Indian Ocean Societies, University of Mauritius, 10 April 2018 - 12 April 2018, https://benedettarossicom.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/programme-10-12-april-final.pdf

Christopher E, 2018, '"The Coast Swarms with Slave Ships": Slaving Trading and Captives after Abolition', presented at American Historical Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, 04 January 2018 - 07 January 2018, https://aha.confex.com/aha/2018/webprogram/Paper24026.html

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Christopher E, 2022, "Desde mi cocina para el mundo", Editor(s): Christopher E, Screen capture, Published: 05 October 2022, Duration: 08:36:00, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Christopher E, 2021, All of We, Published: 03 October 2021, Duration: 51 minutes, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Christopher E, 2021, We the Cimarrons [Feature Documentary], Published: 26 September 2021, Duration: 0:55:21, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://vimeo.com/597783498/7819e648c8

Christopher E, 2020, My Grandfather's Notebooks, Published: 01 January 2020, Duration: 00.05.00, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://vimeo.com/546831710/3799bd2afe

Christopher E, 2020, Hemabu, Published: 2020, Duration: 0.05.00, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Media

Christopher E; Curthoys A; Lester A; Lydon J; Vanderbyl N, 2020, No slavery in Australia? The dark legacies of slave ownership persist long after abolition, ABC, https://www.abc.net.au/religion/australia-and-the-dark-legacy-of-slave-ownership/12744288

Christopher E, 2019, The first sugar, The Library Council of NSW, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/5434_sl_magazine_summer_2019-20_accessible.pdf

Christopher E, 2019, “The Amistad Mutineers’ Countrymen: a Rebellious Caribbean Diaspora”, Africana Studies Program Amistad Research Center Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute History Department, New Orleans, Louisiana, https://events.tulane.edu/content/lecturescreening-emma-christopher-%E2%80%9C-amistad-mutineers%E2%80%99-countrymen-rebellious-caribbean

Other

Christopher E, 2014, They Are We [Feature Documentary]

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