Barry Gaspar, Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	306 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-2109
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• HISTORY 127B.01, CARIBBEAN-18TH CENTURY Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 107, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 127B.01, ICS 151B.01)

• HISTORY 196FS.01, CAP SEM-MAROON SOC. IN AMER. Synopsis

  Bivins 109, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• HISTORY 124S.01, SLAVE SOCIETY ANGLO-AMER Synopsis

  Perkins 2-060, MTuWThF 12:30 PM-01:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 124S.01)

Education:

PhD	Johns Hopkins University	1974
MA	John Hopkins University	1972
BA	University of the West Indies	1968

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity
Legal History
Comparative Colonial Studies

Research Interests: Atlantic World

Dr. Gaspar concentrates on comparative slave systems, with a special interest in the development of slave society and the evolution of slave life in the United States and the Caribbean. The Atlantic Slave Trade, Atlantic history and culture, the legacy of slavery in post-slave societies, historical geography, colonial British America, and Caribbean and Afro-American history are also fields of major interest. He has published articles on slave resistance and social control. His study, Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and he co-edited More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, published by Indiana University Press. He is currently working on transitions in patterns of slave revolt in the Caribbean and North America.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. David Barry Gaspar, "'Subjects to the King of Portugal': Captivity and Repatriation in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antigua 1724)", in The Creation of the British Atlantic World(, Forthcoming), edited by Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas (2005), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
2. David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas (2004), Urbana: University of Illinois Press
3. David Barry Gaspar, "'To Be Free Is Very Sweet': The Manumission of Female Slaves in Antigua, 1817-26", in Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas., edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine (2004), Urbana: University of Illinois Press
4. David Barry Gaspar, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, February 2004, American Historical Review (2004), pp. 144-45
5. CONTOURS: A Journal of the African Diaspora, edited by David Barry Gaspar, vol. 2 no. 1 (2004), University of Illinois Press (Published biannually in the Spring and Fall.)