Publications
Media
Operation Legacy: The Fight for Kenya’s Independence and History.
This graphic history (comic) is the third volume of the series Lukasa: History of Africa and the Diaspora.
It has been adopted for use by NYC Public Schools (Department of Education, New York City).
Operation Legacy: How Britain covered up its colonial crimes.
A BBC podcast.
The secret history of Jamaica’s Independence, The Jamaica Gleaner.
History Watch: The Podcast Series
The History Watch podcast was an occasional series published between 2014 and 2020.
It explored the “use and abuse” of history. In each podcast, Audra A. Diptée is in conversation with a guest speaker and together they explore the ways in which ideas about the past shape our perception of the present and influences how we imagine the future.
Black and Indigenous protesters are treated differently than the ‘convoy’ because of Canada’s ongoing racism.
Breaking from the chains of the past
Recounting Caribbean history accurately is hard when many of the documents have been destroyed.
Books
From Africa to Jamaica
The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807.
Rich with historical sketches of the life and experiences of enslaved people in Africa, on slave ships, and in Jamaica, this study brings to life the ways in which enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade.
From Africa to Jamaica offers a colourful historical portrait of the African men, women, and children who were sold in Jamaica and were thus among the last of the enslaved to put their stamp on Jamaican society.
Letters from the Voyages of the
Slave Ship Pearl.
This book is a collection of letters written by British slave traders who made several voyages across the Atlantic on the slave ship Pearl in the late 18th century.
It is rich in historical details and highlights the nonchalant ways in which the inhumane conditions of the enslaved were described by those trading in human flesh.
Remembering Africa & Its Diasporas
Memory, Public History & Representations of the Past.
The essays in this collection explore the relationship between historical memory, public histories and power.
They offer valuable insights by way of case studies that include South Africa, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, and the United States.
By way of specific examples, this book examines various forms of public history including museums, monuments, parades, and the performing arts.
Beyond Fragmention
Perspectives on Caribbean History.
This book brings together the work of leading scholars who analyze key themes of Caribbean history: slavery, the transition to freedom, colonialism, and decolonization.
They do this through comparative analyses of the research between the British, French, Dutch, and Spanish Caribbean.
This comparison touches on hotly debated subjects and suggests new directions in Caribbean scholarship.
Academic Articles
A Return to the Anticolonial: History as Weapon on the Caribbean Battlefield.
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
The problem of modern-day slavery: is critical applied history the answer?
Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Notions of African Childhood in Abolitionist Discourses
Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarianism in the Fight Against Slavery
L’avenir de l’esclavage : l’histoire sociale comme histoire radicale.
Histoire Sociale / Social History
“A Great Many Boys and Girls”
Igbo Youth in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808
Atlantic Childhood and Youth in Global Context: Reflections on the Global South.
Atlantic Studies: Global Currents
Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities
Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834.
African Children in the British Slave Trade during the Late Eighteenth Century
Slavery & Abolition
