Interview with Michael Lawrence Dickinson

Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 8, pp. 337–342

Abstract

Barra Sabbatical Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies.His research examines enslaved Black lives and communities in eighteenth and nineteenth century cities.The Lovejoy Prize jury members were eager to interview Michael and learn more about his work and future research plans. How did you come to research this particular topic in the first place, and what were your intentions for doing so? What do you hope that students and scholars of Atlantic slavery will learn or take away from this book? I should first begin by thanking the Journal of Global Slavery and Lovejoy PrizeCommittee for this award.It is an honor and a privilege to have my work acknowledged by a publication that I admire in a prize named after a historian whose work I so deeply admire.To answer your question, this project began many years ago when I was conducting research in the United States while on a fellowship in Philadelphia.Initially, I was shocked and intrigued when I learned that most enslaved laborers in the city's history arrived from the Caribbean.I then found enslaved experiences in expansive urban networks to be generally understudied, so I set out to investigate these commercial networks connecting Caribbean port cities with ports in mainland Anglo-America.But, while in the interview Journal of Global Slavery 8 (2023) 337-342 the lived experiences of enslaved people who became victims of the domestic slave trade, the brutality of sale in the urban South, and black efforts to combat the human traffic.

Authors 4

1. Damian Alan Pargas Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands

2. Ismael M. Montana

   Northern Illinois University

   Affiliation as printed

   Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL USA

3. Éric Komlavi Hahonou

   Roskilde University

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Roskilde Roskilde Denmark

4. Viola Franziska Müller

   University of Bonn

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Bonn Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies Bonn Germany

   University of Bonn