By Associate Professor Emma Christopher

Books

Christopher E, 2018, Freedom in White and Black: a lost story of the illegal slave trade and its global legacy, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin

Christopher E, 2011, A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa, OUP Oxford

Christopher E, 2011, A Merciless Place The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution, Oxford University Press

Christopher E, 2010, A Merciless Place The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and How It Led to the Settlement of Australia, Allen & Unwin

Christopher E; Pybus C; Rediker M, 2007, Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

Christopher E; Pybus C; Rediker M, 2007, Many Middle Passages Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, Univ of California Press

Christopher E, 2006, Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807, Cambridge University Press

Christopher E, 2006, Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Book Chapters

Christopher E, 2025, 'Blackness and slavery in the aftermath of abolition: the case of South Sea Islanders in Australia', in Laidlaw Z; Lydon J (ed.), Legacies of British Slavery in Australia and New Zealand, Manchester University Press, Manchester

Christopher E, 2024, 'African Sailors in the Atlantic World', in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.891

Christopher E, 2016, '‘’Tis enough that we give them liberty’?: Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave trade suppression’', in Huzzey R; Burroughs R (ed.), The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion

Christopher E; Maxwell Stewart H, 2015, 'Alternatives to Botany Bay', in Bashford A; MacIntyre S (ed.), The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 1, Indigenous and Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press

Christopher E, 2013, 'From Ireland to Africa: the Criminal Career and Punishment of Patrick Madan’', in Fortin J; Meuwese M (ed.), Atlantic Biographies Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, BRILL

Thompson SM, 2012, 'Introduction', in Thompson S; Maginn P (ed.), Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 13

Christopher E; Maxwell-Stewart H, 2011, 'Convict transportation in global context, c. 1700–88', in Cambridge History of Australia, pp. 68 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781107445758.007

Christopher E, 2007, '“’The slave trade is merciful compared to [this]’: Slave Traders, Convict Transportation and the Abolitionists”', in Christopher E; Pybus C; Rediker M (ed.), Many Middle Passages Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, Univ of California Press

Christopher E; Pybus C; Rediker M, 2007, 'Introduction: Many Middle Passages', in Many Middle Passages Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, Univ of California Press

Christopher E, 2006, '‘Steal a Handkerchief, See the World: the trans-oceanic voyaging of Thomas Limpus’', in Lake M; Curthoys A (ed.), Connected Worlds History in Transnational Perspective, ANU E Press

Christopher E, 2006, 'Life in the White Man's Grave', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 125 - 162, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'Lives for Sale', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 195 - 225, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'Sea Changes', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 163 - 194, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 Conclusion', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 226 - 229, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 Introduction', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 1 - 20, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'Slaving Merchants and Merchant Seamen', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 23 - 50, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'The Bloody Rise of Western Freedom', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 91 - 121, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2006, 'The Multiracial Crews of Slave Ships', in SLAVE SHIP SAILORS AND THEIR CAPTIVE CARGOES, 1730-1807, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, pp. 51 - 90, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297101500004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Journal articles

Wiegmink P; Miller I; Lueb O; Christopher E, 2024, 'German (post)colonialism: Archiving, collecting, exhibiting and repatriating Pacific cultures, a conversation', Atlantic Studies Global Currents, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2024.2381896

Christopher E, 2022, 'Mary Wills. Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign against the Slave Trade in West Africa. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. Pp. 241. Cloth £80.00', American Historical Review, 127, pp. 1959 - 1960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab614

Christopher E, 2022, '‘I am not a Kanaka or a N____’: slave pasts and kidnapped men in the Pacific', Australian Journal of Biography and History, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.06.2022.06

Christopher E, 2021, 'Review of Mary Wills, Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa', American Historical Review

Christopher E, 2021, 'Niklas Frykman, The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution', New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (NWIG)

Christopher E, 2021, 'Far More than Money: British West Indian Slavery, Emancipation, and Australia’s Sugar Industry', Australian Historical Studies

Christopher E, 2021, 'Legacies of British Slavery in Australia: John Ewen Davidson, slave-produced wealth, and the Queensland sugar industry', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.25952/v6pn-rt18

Christopher E, 2021, 'From the Caribbean to Queensland: re-examining Australia’s ‘blackbirding’ past and its roots in the global slave trade', The Conversation

Christopher E, 2021, 'Black Lives Still Don’t Matter Here', Histories of the Present, History Workshop Journal companion piece, https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-lives-still-dont-matter-here/

Christopher E, 2021, 'The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolutione', NWIG-NEW WEST INDIAN GUIDE-NIEUWE WEST-INDISCHE GIDS, 95, pp. 308 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09503009

Christopher E, 2020, 'An Illegitimate Offspring: South Sea Islanders, Queensland Sugar, and the Heirs of the British Atlantic Slave Complex', History Workshop Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbaa018

Christopher E, 2019, 'The saviour and the revolutionary: Afro-caribbean responses in a Queensland/new Guinea kidnapping case', Slavery and Abolition, 40, pp. 321 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1547506

Christopher E, 2016, 'Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling', JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY, 57, pp. 468 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021853716000372

Christopher E, 2016, 'Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail', LABOR-STUDIES IN WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS, 13, pp. 154 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342821

Christopher E, 2014, 'Behind the Boko Haram headlines, slavery in Africa is the real crisis', The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/behind-the-boko-haram-headlines-slavery-in-africa-is-the-real-crisis-26379

Christopher E, 2013, 'How Cuban Villagers Learned They Descended from Sierra Leone Slaves', The Atlantic Magazine, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/how-cuban-villagers-learned-they-descended-from-sierra-leone-slaves/275067/

Christopher , 2013, 'Josefa Diago and the Origins of Cuba’s Gangá Traditions', Transition, pp. 133 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/transition.111.133

Christopher E, 2011, 'The murderer and his victim: Tracing a lost convict of the Botany Bay decision', Life Writing, 8, pp. 35 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2011.542362

Christopher E, 2010, 'After the bicentenary: The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in recent history', History Today, 60

Moore D, 2010, 'Colloquy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship: A Human History', ATLANTIC STUDIES-GLOBAL CURRENTS, 7, pp. 5 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810903480995

Christopher E, 2010, 'Looking forward from the deck', ATLANTIC STUDIES-GLOBAL CURRENTS, 7, pp. 23 - 26, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000212191700006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2009, 'From the 'Ballad-Singing Monkey' to the 'Cunning Savages': The voyage to found a British Colony on the Orange River, 1785-1786'', South African Historical Journal, 61, pp. 750 - 765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470903500400

Christopher E, 2009, 'The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain', INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 31, pp. 124 - 126, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000263881400022&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Christopher E, 2009, 'Women and Slavery. Volume 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval Atlantic', CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES, 43, pp. 583 - 587, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000211632300008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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