Articles/Chapters

“Corporeal Epistemologies of the Middle Passage,” in Michael Gomez, ed., The Cambridge
History of the African Diaspora, Vol. II: Slave Trades, Dispersals, and Processes of
Commodification (Cambridge University Press, expected 2025).

“Atlantic African Political Structures and Cultures in the Early Caribbean,” in Kristen Block, ed., The Cambridge History of the Caribbean, Vol. 1: Indigenous Displacement and the
Formation of Colonial Slave Societies (Cambridge University Press, expected 2024).

“Ideological and Technological Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic,” in Martin Klein, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Diaspora (Oxford University Press, expected, 2023); also in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.927 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

“‘Our Danger is Great and Certain’: Gabriel’s Conspiracy and the Louisiana Purchase,” Journal of African American History (2023), 1-22.

“African Identity in Early America: August 20, 1729 to August 19, 1734,” Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain, eds., 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World Press, 2021), 96-100.

“American Slavery and Resistance,” in Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, eds., Slavery and the United States: An Historiographical Approach (Kent State University Press, 2021), 127-157.

“Religion in the Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora,” in John Corrigan, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America (Oxford University Press, 2018), I: 167-185.

“‘Earth from a Dead Negro’s Grave’: Ritual Technologies and Mortuary Realms in the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast Diaspora,” in Rebecca Shumway and Trevor Getz, eds., Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora (Bloomsbury, 2017), 58-80.

“‘Only Draw in Your Countrymen’: Akan Culture and Community in Colonial New York City,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (2010): 76-118.

“Unpopular Sovereignty: African American Reaction and Resistance to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act,” in John Wunder and Joann Ross, eds., The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 129-158.

“Memories of ‘Homeland’: Historical and Literary Representations of Enslavement and Acculturation in the Diaspora,” in Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul Lovejoy, and David Trotman, eds., Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories (Africa World Press, 2008), 23-34.

“From Black Nadir to Brown v. Board: Empowerment and Education in Black Georgian Communities, 1865-1954,” (with Sabriya Jubilee.) Negro Educational Review (2007): 151-168.

“Crusader in Exile: Robert F. Williams and the Internationalized Struggle for Black Freedom in America,” Black Scholar (2006): 19-34.

“African Americans and an Atlantic World Culture,” in Alton Hornsby, Jr., ed., The Blackwell Companion to African American History (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), 235-254.

“The African and European Slave Trades,” in Alton Hornsby, Jr., ed., The Blackwell Companion to African American History (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), 48-66.

“‘A Negro Nation Within the Nation’: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Creation of a Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Tradition,” Black Scholar (2002): 37-46.

“‘The Problem of the Color Line’: Lynching, Race Riots, and Identity Formation in Texas, 1890-1920,” The Griot (2001): 23-34.

“Conjure, Magic, and Power: The Influence of Afro-Atlantic Religious Practices on Slave Resistance and Rebellion,” Journal of Black Studies (2001): 85-104.

“‘I Will Gather All Nations’: Resistance, Culture, and Pan-African Collaboration in Denmark Vesey’s South Carolina,” Journal of Negro History (2001): 132-147.