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Stephen D. Behrendt is an historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA (1988) and PhD (1993) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then taught at Drake University and the University of Northern Iowa.[1] In 1996–1998 he completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute (now renamed the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research) and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.[2]
Behrendt is one of the originators of Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (www.slavevoyages.org) which began from a chance meeting with Professor David Eltis in the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) in Kew, London, in 1990.[3] Behrendt assisted James Rawley to update The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, published originally by Norton in 1981,[4] with the updated edition published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005.[5] In 2010, Behrendt co-authored The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader with A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup, and subsequently he has worked on eighteenth-century Liverpool history, precolonial Nigerian history and the history of colonial St. Kitts.
[1] https://www.victoria.ac.nz/hppi/about/staff/steve-behrendt/.
[2] https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/alumni-fellows; https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/former-fellows#B, accessed 10 February 2023.
[3] https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2010/septemberoctober/feature/gross-injustice, accessed 10 February 2023.
[4] Klein, Herbert S. (1 April 1983). "James A. Rawley. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New York: W. W. Norton. 1981. Pp. xiv, 452. $24.95". The American Historical Review. 88 (2): 361–362. doi:10.1086/ahr/88.2.361– via academic.oup.com.
[5] Manning, Patrick (2006). "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition. By JAMES RAWLEY with STEPHEN D. BEHRENDT. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+441. £38.5 (ISBN 0-8032-3961-0)". The Journal of African History. 47 (3): 529. doi:10.1017/S0021853706452439.
Articles and chapters[edit]
· "Human Capital in the British Slave Trade" in David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles, eds., Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2007. pp. 66-97.
· "Ecology, Seasonality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, eds., Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009. pp. 44-85 & 461-85.
· "The Transatlantic Slave Trade" in Robert Paquette and Mark Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. pp. 251-74.
· "Sail on, Albion: the Usefulness of Lloyd's Registers for Maritime History, 1760–1840", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 568–586. (With Peter M. Solar)
· "Liverpool as a Trading Port: Sailors’ Residences, African Migrants, Occupational Change and Probated Wealth", International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov. 2017), pp. 875–910. (With Robert A. Hurley)
· “African Cultures and Creolization on an Eighteenth-Century St Kitts Sugar Plantation”, Past and Present, Vol. 253, No. 1 (Nov. 2021), pp. 195–234. (With Philip D Morgan and Nicholas Radburn)