Laura Rosanne Adderley
Associate Professor - History
- New Orleans LA UNITED STATES
- Roger Thayer Stone Venter for Latin American Studies
Laura Rosanne Adderley researches the cultural history of the Caribbean
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Wesley-Logan Book Prize for New Negroes from Africa, American Historical Association
2007
NEH/VFH Summer Institute for College Teachers
1998
Woodson Fellowship, University of Virginia
1999 - 2000
Mendenhall Fellowship, Smith College
1995 - 1996
Fulbright Fellowship
1993 - 1994
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
History
1996
University of Pennsylvania
M.A.
History
1990
Yale University
B.A.
History
1989
Links
Articles
Repatriation projects Among Free African Communities en the 19th- Century Caribbean
Revista Mexico del Caribe2000
The present essay explores the question of return emigration to Africa, considering how liberated Africans responded to this issue and how their behavior may prompt new understandings of the nature of back-to-Africa projects in general. The paper compares a liberated African repatriation project from the Bahamas with a similar project proposed by a Muslim group of former slaves from Trinidad. Emphasis is placed on the fact that these were back-to-Africa schemes launched by African born people in contrast with other repatriation projects developed by people of African descent born in the Americas. These African immigrants and would-be reemigrants were both African and un African in their repatriation projects and their negotiation of this paradoxical cultural dynamic was far more nuanced than any simple questions of cultural oppression or imperialism on the one hand and African resistance on the other.
A most useful and valuable people?’ Cultural, Moral and Practical Dilemmas in the Use of Liberated African Labour in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean
Slavery and Abolition1999
Orisha Worship and ‘Jesus Time’: Rethinking African Religious Conversion in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies1997