Laura Rosanne Adderley
Associate Professor - History
Areas of Expertise
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.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
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
Links
Articles
Repatriation projects Among Free African Communities en the 19th- Century Caribbean
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.
A most useful and valuable people?’ Cultural, Moral and Practical Dilemmas in the Use of Liberated African Labour in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean
1999
Orisha Worship and ‘Jesus Time’: Rethinking African Religious Conversion in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean
1997
