Stephen D. Behrendt

Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.^[1]

His updating of James A. Rawley's The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, originally published by Norton in 1981,^[2] was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005.^[3] In 2010, he co-edited an edition of The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader with A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup.^[4][5][6]

Selected publications

Books

• Rawley, James A. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2005. (Reviser) ISBN 0803239610
• The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010. (With A.J.H. Latham and David Northrup) ISBN 9780195376180

Articles and chapters

• "Human Capital in the British Slave Trade" in David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles, eds., Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2007. pp. 66-97.
• "Ecology, Seasonality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, eds., Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009. pp. 44-85 & 461-85.
• "The Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Robert Paquette and Mark Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. pp. 251-74.
• "Sail on, Albion: the Usefulness of Lloyd's Registers for Maritime History, 1760–1840", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 568–586. (With Peter M. Solar)
• "Liverpool as a Trading Port: Sailors’ Residences, African Migrants, Occupational Change and Probated Wealth", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov. 2017), pp. 875–910. (With Robert A. Hurley)