Laura Rosanne Adderley

Associate Professor - History

  • New Orleans LA UNITED STATES
  • Roger Thayer Stone Venter for Latin American Studies
adderley@tulane.edu

Laura Rosanne Adderley researches the cultural history of the Caribbean

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Biography

Laura Rosanne Adderley specializes in the History of the African Diaspora; the Atlantic Slave Trade, Black Enslavement in the Americas, Caribbean History, and African-American History.

Areas of Expertise

Atlantic Slave Trade
Caribbean
Formation of African Diaspora Culture

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

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Education

University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D.

History

1996

University of Pennsylvania

M.A.

History

1990

Yale University

B.A.

History

1989

Articles

Repatriation projects Among Free African Communities en the 19th- Century Caribbean

Revista Mexico del Caribe

2000

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.

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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 Abolition

1999

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Orisha Worship and ‘Jesus Time’: Rethinking African Religious Conversion in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies

1997

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