Dr. Clarence Maxwell

Courses

• HIST 105:  History Matters
• HIST 283:  Colonial Latin America
• HIST 401:  Cultural Interactions in the Atlantic World, 1450-1820
• HIST 512:  Topics: Maritime Atlantic
• SSCI 203H:  Honors: Explorations in History of Ideas

Interests/Projects

• Bermuda, Latin American and Caribbean History, Afro-Atlantic Diaspora history, Atlantic World slavery and slave trade
• Associate Editor: Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History
• Atlantic World Research at Millersville University

Recent Publications

• "Race and Servitude: the birth of a social and political order in Bermuda, 1616-1669", Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, vol.11 (1999).
• "‘The Horrid Villany': Sarah Bassett and the Poisoning Conspiracies in Bermuda, 1727-1730," Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 21, no. 3 (December 2000)
• Review: "Servitude at Sea" A Review of Virginia Bernhard, Slaves and slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, for The Bermudian (May 2000)
• Review: Virginia Bernhard's Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, for Slavery and Abolition, Vol 21, no.3 (December 2000)
• "‘The Horrid Villany': Sarah Bassett and the Poisoning Conspiracies in Bermuda, 1727-1730," Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, vol. 12 (2001) [reprint]
• with Clifford Smith, Jr., "A Bermuda Smuggling-Slave Trade: The ‘Manilla Wreck' Opens Pandora's Box, Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 23, no. 1 (April 2002)
• Review: Michael Craton and Gail Saunders Islanders in the Stream: A history of the Bahamian People. Vol. II. From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century, in New West Indian Guide, vol. 26, no. 1&2 (2002)
• with Clifford Smith, Jr., "A Bermuda Smuggling-Slave Trade: The ‘Manilla Wreck' Opens Pandora's Box," in Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, vol. 13 (2002) [reprint]
• Preface to James Wahl, Planting the Banner of Christ on the Isle of Devils: a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Bermuda.
• With Alyson Brown, "‘As a receptacle of our Worst Convicts': Bermuda, the Chatham Prison Riots and the Transportation of Violence," Journal of Caribbean History, vol. 37:2 (2003)
• "Enslaved Merchants, Enslaved Merchant Mariners, and the Bermuda Conspiracy of 1761," Early American Studies, Vol.7, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 140-178.