Barry Gaspar
| Title: | Professor |
| Office Location: | 306 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2109 |
| Email Address: | dgaspar@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Johns Hopkins University, 1974
- MA John Hopkins University, 1972
- BA University of the West Indies, 1968
Research Interests
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.
Teaching (Summer2 2008):
- HISTORY 124S.01, Slave society anglo-amer
- Social sciences 124, MTuWThF 12:30 PM-01:45 PM
- HISTORY 127A.01, Caribbean 1492-1700
Synopsis
- White lecture hall 107, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Recent Publications
Edited Volumes- David Barry Gaspar, Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas ed., ""'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) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
- David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, "Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas" (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
- David Barry Gaspar, David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine ed., ""'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. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
- David Barry Gaspar, "The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade". American Historical Review February 2004 (2004): 144-45.
- "CONTOURS: A Journal of the African Diaspora." . Ed. David Barry Gaspar University of Illinois Press, 2004. (Published biannually in the Spring and Fall)