By Associate Professor Emma Christopher

Journal articles

Christopher E, 2022, 'Mary Wills. Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign against the Slave Trade in West Africa. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. Pp. 241. Cloth £80.00', American Historical Review, 127, pp. 1959 - 1960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab614

Christopher E, 2022, '‘I am not a Kanaka or a N____’: slave pasts and kidnapped men in the Pacific', Australian Journal of Biography and History, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.06.2022.06

Christopher E, 2021, 'Review of Mary Wills, Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa', American Historical Review

Christopher E, 2021, 'Niklas Frykman, The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution', New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG)

Christopher E, 2021, 'Far More than Money: British West Indian Slavery, Emancipation, and Australia’s Sugar Industry', Australian Historical Studies

Christopher E, 2021, 'From the Caribbean to Queensland: re-examining Australia’s ‘blackbirding’ past and its roots in the global slave trade', The Conversation

Christopher E, 2021, 'Black Lives Still Don’t Matter Here', Histories of the Present, History Workshop Journal companion piece, https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-lives-still-dont-matter-here/

Christopher E, 2020, 'An Illegitimate Offspring: South Sea Islanders, Queensland Sugar, and the Heirs of the British Atlantic Slave Complex', History Workshop Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbaa018

Christopher E, 2019, 'The saviour and the revolutionary: Afro-caribbean responses in a Queensland/new Guinea kidnapping case', Slavery and Abolition, 40, pp. 321 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1547506

Christopher E, 2016, 'Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling', JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, 57, pp. 468 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021853716000372

Christopher E, 2016, 'Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail', LABOR-STUDIES IN WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS, 13, pp. 154 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342821

Buchanan T, 2015, 'Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail', Journal of Social History, pp. shv013 - shv013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shv013

Christopher E, 2014, 'Behind the Boko Haram headlines, slavery in Africa is the real crisis', The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/behind-the-boko-haram-headlines-slavery-in-africa-is-the-real-crisis-26379

Christopher E, 2013, 'How Cuban Villagers Learned They Descended from Sierra Leone Slaves', The Atlantic Magazine, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/how-cuban-villagers-learned-they-descended-from-sierra-leone-slaves/275067/

Christopher , 2013, 'Josefa Diago and the Origins of Cuba’s Gangá Traditions', Transition, pp. 133 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/transition.111.133

Christopher E, 2011, 'The murderer and his victim: Tracing a lost convict of the Botany Bay decision', Life Writing, 8, pp. 35 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2011.542362

Christopher E, 2010, 'After the bicentenary: The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in recent history', History Today, 60

Moore D, 2010, 'Colloquy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship: A Human History', ATLANTIC STUDIES-GLOBAL CURRENTS, 7, pp. 5 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810903480995

Christopher E, 2010, 'Looking forward from the deck', ATLANTIC STUDIES-GLOBAL CURRENTS, 7, pp. 23 - 26, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000212191700006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2009, 'From the 'Ballad-Singing Monkey' to the 'Cunning Savages': The voyage to found a British Colony on the Orange River, 1785-1786'', South African Historical Journal, 61, pp. 750 - 765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470903500400

Christopher E, 2009, 'The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain', INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 31, pp. 124 - 126, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000263881400022&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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

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