Select Articles/Book Chapters

“New Perspectives on Kongo in Revolutionary Haiti.” The Americas 74 (2017): 83-97.
 
 “Reimagining the African-Atlantic Archive: Method, Concept, Epistemology, 
Ontology.”  Journal of African History 55 (2014): 147-159.
  
 “Inconvenient Truths: The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon During the Era of the 
 Slave Trade,” in Matt D. Childs, Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, and James Sidbury, eds. 
 The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade. Philadelphia: University of 
 Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 233-247.
  
 “Defying Social Death: The Multiple Configurations of African Slave Family in the 
 Atlantic World.” William and Mary Quarterly 70 (2013): 251-272.
  
 “The Quiet Violence of Ethnogenesis.” William and Mary Quarterly 68 (2011): 209-214.
  
 “Mutual Misunderstandings: Gesture, Gender, and Healing in the African Portuguese 
 World.” Past and Present 203 Supplement 4 (2009): 128-143.
  
 “Slaves, Convicts, and Exiles: African Travelers in the Portuguese-Atlantic World, 
 1720-1750,” in Caroline A. Williams, ed. Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World: People, 
 Products, and Practices on the Move. London: Ashgate Publishers, 2009, 193-202.
  
 “Mistaken Identities? Olaudah Equiano, Domingos Álvares, and the Methodological 
 Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora.” The American Historical Review 
114 (2009): 279-306.
  
 “Slave Resistance.” Freedom’s Story: Teaching African-American Literature and History. 
 TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center: An Interactive Curriculum 
Enrichment Service for Teachers, May 2008. 
              
 “African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1550-1624,” in 
 Peter Mancall, ed. The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624. Chapel Hill, NC: 
 University of North Carolina Press, 2007, 225-247.
  
 “The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, 
 St. Domingue, and the United States,” in Michael A. Gomez, ed., Diasporic Africa: 
 A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2006, 64-80.
  
 “Manumission in Rio de Janeiro, 1749-1754: An African Perspective.” 
 Slavery and Abolition 24 (2003), 54-70.
 
 "The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought." William and Mary Quarterly LIV 
 (1997), 143-166.