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David Northrup

professor

David Northrup

Telephone: (617) 552-3792

Office Location: Maloney Hall, Room 412-M

Email: david.northrup@bc.edu

Curriculum Vitae: please click here

Education

Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1974


Fields of Interest

History of Sub-Saharan Africa; world history; labor and migration


Academic Profile

Professor Northrup teaches courses on the history of sub-Saharan Africa, Atlantic history, globalization, and world history. His research has dealt with pre-colonial Nigeria, early colonial Congo, the Atlantic slave trade, Asian and African indentured labor migration, and African encounters with Europe in the pre-colonial era. His work has included British, Belgian, and French colonialism in Africa. He is past president of the World History Association.


Representative Publications

  • The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (co-author, 2010)
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade, compiler and editor, 3rd ed. (2010)
  • Africa's Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850, 2nd ed. (2009)
  • Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents (2007)
  • The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 3rd ed. (co-author, 2004)
  • Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922 (1995)
  • Beyond the Bend in the River: African Labor in Eastern Zaire, 1865-1940 (1988)
  • Trade Without Rulers: Pre-Colonial Economic Development in South-Eastern Nigeria (1978)