CONTRIBUTOR:

David Northrup

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Department of History

INSTITUTION:

Boston College

BIOGRAPHY:

Professor Emeritus, History, Boston College, David earned BS and MA degrees at Fordham University and an MA and Ph.D. in African Studies from U.C.L.A. Between degrees he taught secondary school in Nigeria and was an instructor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He taught at Boston College from 1974 to 2012 and is a past president of the World History Association. His publications have concerned African, Atlantic, and world history. Of late he has authored Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850 (3rd ed., 2013) and How English Became the Global Language (2013); co-authored The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (2010); compiled and edited The Atlantic Slave Trade (3rd ed., 2011) and Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1985 (2007); and contributed to the Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c. 1450-1820 (2009) and the Oxford History of the British Empire (1988, 2004). Earlier books concerned pre-colonial Nigeria. Colonial Congo, and the global indentured labor trade after 1834. Soon to appear are essays on periodization in the Cambridge World History, vol. 1, and on the slave and indentured labor trades in the Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 4.