http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:33:35 +0000 The programme for this two-day conference at Aberdeen University (Fri 12 to Sat 13 March 2010) has now been released.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=472Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:21:01 +0000 A selection of testimony and opinion pieces - reflecting a range of views - which have appeared online over the last three weeks.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=465Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:28:28 +0000 There are so many trapped in the rubble of rational thought which tragically collapsed this week in parts of Europe and North America. Can someone help Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach?http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=453Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:08:14 +0000 Sunday morning beside the statue to Alexandre Pétion, Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince, January 2004.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=460Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:50:12 +0000 Michel-Étienne Descourtilz (1775-1836) was a French doctor and botanist who was sent to Saint-Domingue by the government and founded the colonial Lycée there. During the slave rebellion he served as a doctor with Dessalines' army, returning to Europe in 1803.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=458Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:32:30 +0000 With the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, some elements of the political elite in France considered reconquering Haiti and restoring slavery there. Drouin de Bercy's De Saint-Domingue (1814) is an argument in favour of this project.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=457Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:51:58 +0000 In a recent blog post, the legal scholar Jonathan Turley, attempting to make sense of Pat Robertson's, by now notorious, remarks on the divine purpose of the Haiti earthquake, has this to say.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=452Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:42:43 +0000 Many now recognize the importance of Frederick Douglass' visit to the British Isles in 1845-47, a lecture tour that took him the length and breadth of the country and which secured his international reputation as an anti-slavery campaigner. http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=421Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:31 +0000 Haiti and the Politics of the Universal University of Aberdeen, March 12-13, 2010.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=420Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:12:53 +0000 Caribbean Enlightenment An Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, 8-10 April 2010. http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=419Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:54:17 +0000 From Duvalier to Preval: Haiti Today and Yesterday International Conference at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 21 and 22 June, 2010.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=418Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:30:05 +0000 Welcome to the new bulldozia: projects site, finally rebuilt on new foundations after more than a year's work behind the scenes.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=407Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:02:24 +0000 When, during the campaign for the Republican nomination in 1980, George Bush, Senior, came up with the phrase voodoo economics to mock the policies of his rival, Ronald Reagan, he might have been celebrating the centenary of this adjectival noun, which emerged, almost by accident from what now seem quaintly-spelt predecessors.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=379Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:07:24 +0100 Collected here are some materials drawn from ongoing research into the history of the word voodoo in English. http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=378Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:06:17 +0100 This text records a decision of the Commission appointed by the revolutionary French Government, dated 21 November 1796, and published in the Bulletin officiel de Saint-Domingue, 28 January 1797. http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=342Wed, 14 May 2008 00:33:54 +0100 http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=293Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:07:29 +0000 http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=279Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:49:33 +0100 Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave and leading abolitionist, visited Britain and Ireland in 1845-47 for a lecture tour. On the outward voyage he was invited by the captain to deliver a speech on slavery, but was shouted down by other passengers and a near riot ensued. Frederick Douglass to William Lloyd GarrisonThe fugitive slave gives an account of his experiences on the Cambria for the readers of the abolitionist journal Liberator.Frederick DouglassA version of the incident from a pro-slavery American writing to the Boston Times.Abolition Riot on the AtlanticAnother, this time from the New York Herald.The Pro-Slavery Row on the AtlanticJudson Hutchinson gives his account to the readers of the Boston Pioneer.The Abolition Riot on the AtlanticThe New York Herald again.Frederick Douglass to Thurlow WeedGiving thanks for his correspondent's defence of Douglass' conduct on the Cambria, later published in the Liberator.James Warburton - from Hochelega (1847)An subsequent account by one of the passengers.James E Alexander - from L'Acadie (1849)And another.Frederick Douglass - from My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)Douglass recalls the incident in his second autobiography. http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=277Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:47:46 +0100 By June 1944 as many as 1.5 million US servicemen and women were stationed in Britain, nearly ten per cent of them African Americans. The impact of the presence of a segregated army on foreign soil is recorded in the following items in wartime newspapers and periodicals.Dance Ban on Coloured Troops'Coloured American soldiers stationed in the district were refused admission to an Army dance at Eye, Suffolk ...' Daily Herald, 7 September 1942.Vicar's Wife Insults Our Allies'A six point code which would result in the ostracism of American coloured troops ...' Sunday Pictorial, 6 September 1942.From A London Diary'Examples are beginning to reach me of the complications that are almost certain to arise if considerable numbers of coloured troops arrived with the American army ...' New Statesman and Nation, 22 August 1942.From A London Diary'It was a really good dance. A couple of hundred couples I suppose ...' New Statesman and Nation, 19 September 1942.Colour Bar: Use of the City's Amenities'The military authorities imposed a bar on the Kent Street baths to members of that particular unit ...' Birmingham Mail, 15 May 1945.Dixie Invades Britain - by Roi Ottley'Americans export race prejudices, force discrimination on England.' From Negro Digest, September 1944. http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=275Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:40:42 +0100 These songs were published in an eight-page pamphlet published in Edinburgh 1846. They were recorded by the traditional singers Gordeanna McCulloch and Bob Blair for a BBC Radio Scotland programme on Douglass in Scotland, called Send Back the Money (11 December 1996).Most of these ballads were adaptions of existing songs, changing the words to fit the topic of the day. 'My Boy Tammy' was an old song, which served well because of the Christian name of the leader of the Free Church of Scotland, Dr Thomas Chalmers.The Free Church and Her Boy TammyThe Boy Tammy's MeditationsSend Back the MoneyO For Good Luck To Our CoffersComplaint Of A Minister's Slave http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=274Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:25:36 +0100 This is a list of the places where Douglass was known to have given lectures during his visit. It is based on the list published in John Blassingame (ed) The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series One: Speeches, Debates and Interviews. Volume 1: 1841-46 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979).http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=273Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:31:01 +0100 Des Colonies, et particulièrement de celle de Saint-Domingue (Paris 1814) by Colonel Charles Malenfant is a significant primary source.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=267Wed, 23 May 2007 15:16:49 +0100 Alasdair Pettinger studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, completing his PhD in Literature in 1988 while working as a civil servant in London. Since 1992, he has been based in Glasgow, working at the Scottish Music Centre and pursuing his academic interests as an independent scholar, although he has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Central Lancashire (2000) and Nottingham Trent University (2004-2007).He is the editor of Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (1998), and has published a number of essays reflecting his (overlapping) interests in travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His current projects include a study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in the 1840s and a history of the word voodoo in English.He also edits the Studies in Travel Writing website, which tries to keep up with developments in the field and offers occasional reflections of its own.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=265Thu, 17 May 2007 18:17:00 +0100 This site offers materials for teaching and research in the field of Black Atlantic studies. Written and maintained by Alasdair Pettinger, it consists of short essays, mini anthologies, reprinted hard-to-find primary texts, bibliographies, links to other related online resources. The blog will include news items, sidelong observations, and more personal glimpses of work in progress. Or, more likely, work not progressing very much at all.http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=264Thu, 17 May 2007 18:12:41 +0100 http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=263Thu, 17 May 2007 18:01:32 +0100