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Carlito Oliveira Junior

rebsl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:54:48 +0000

Carlito Lopes de Oliveira Junior is a PhD candidate in History at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and holds a Master's degree in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), where he was advised by Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Saraiva. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anita Correia Lima de Almeida (UNIRIO), investigates the internal slave market in the Recôncavo da Guanabara (Estrela, Iguaçu, and Magé, 1850–1888), using fiscal records, parish registers, and historical cartography. He also holds a Master's degree in History from UFF, with a dissertation on the spatial, economic, and political formation of Vila de Estrela (1846–1892). He is Director of Historical-Cultural Heritage Preservation at the Prefeitura Municipal de Magé (Rio de Janeiro) and founder of the cultural platform @historiademage. He is a member of the YSI/INET Economic History Working Group and a TEDx Countdown 2024 speaker.

Keywords: Internal slave trade, Atlantic slavery, second slavery, Recôncavo da Guanabara, nineteenth-century Brazil, historical demography, African diaspora, economic history, Atlantic capitalism, slavery, abolition

Boniface Ifeanyi Orji

rebsl — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:44:22 +0000

Orji Boniface Ifeanyi, Ph.D, is a member of the Economic History Society, United Kingdom, Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN) and Lagos Studies Association (LSA). He has a Ph.D in History and International Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He has won academic distinctions, prizes, and awards, including the coveted Osaka University Nakashima Centre Essay Award (2010) and University of Ilorin Departmental Prize for Best Academic Result for the 2010/2011 academic session. Orji is currently a faculty at the Department of History and International Studies, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo. He has been involved in a series of high-profile national and international research projects over the years, and his interest spans Migration and Diaspora Studies; Economic and Social History, Igbo/Lagos Studies and Environmental Conflict. He has published widely in Peer-Reviewed Indexed Journals and Publications, including notable Chapters in scholarly books.

Keywords: Migration, Diaspora, Economic Development, Economic History, Igbo Studies

Paul E. Lovejoy

rebsl — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:53:44 +0000

Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, �첥��Ƶ, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Lovejoy is Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at �첥��Ƶ, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO “Slave Route” Project (1996-2012) and continues as General Editor of The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora (Africa World Press). He was co-editor of the journal, African Economic History for 37 years and has published more than forty books, including Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (1775-1850) (2016), Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa (2019), and most recently co-edited with Ali Moussa Iye and Nelly Schmidt, Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective (2019), co-edited with Dale Tomich, The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond (2021), and co-edited with Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy and Erika Melek Delgado, Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives (2022). He has received numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Research keywords: Social justice; economic history; slavery; migration; ethnicity