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- Jelmer Vos
- Assistant Professor
- History
- 8000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3949
- jvos@odu.edu
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Education
- University of London (LSE/SOAS),
2005
- Major: History
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Amsterdam,
1997
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: M.A.
- University of Amsterdam,
1997
- Major: Political Science
- Degree: M.S.
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Research Interests
- Atlantic slave trade, 19th century Kongo, early colonial rule in Angola
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Book Chapters
- Vos, J. (2012). ‘Without the slave trade no recruitment’: From Slave Trading to ‘Migrant Recruitment’ in the Lower Congo, 1830-1890.Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
- Vos, J., Eltis, D., and Richardson, D. (2008). The Dutch in the Atlantic World: New Perspectives from the Slave Trade with Particular Reference to the African Origins of
the Traffic.Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Vos, J. (2008). The Economics of the Kwango Rubber Trade, c. 1900.Angola on the Move. Transport Routes, Communication and History. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Otto Lembeck.
- Vos, J. (2007). Forced labour and the fall of the King of Kongo (1912-1913).Trabalho forçado africano. Articulações com o poder politico. Porto: Campo das Letras.
- Vos, J. (2006). Slavery in Southern Kongo in the Late Nineteenth Century.Trabalho Forçado Africano. Experiências Coloniais Comparadas. Porto: Campo das Letras.
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Articles
- Vos, J. (2011). Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906-1910. Portuguese Studies Review, 19 (1-2), (pp. 153-175).
- Vos, J. (2010). Child Slaves and Freemen at the Spiritan Mission in Soyo, 1880-1885. Journal of Family History, 35 (1), (pp. 71-90).
- Vos, J. (2010). The Slave Trade from the Windward Coast: the Case of the Dutch, 1740-1805. African Economic History, 38, (pp. 29-51).
- Vos, J., and Allen, K. R. (2008). Slavery-Era Disclosure and Atlantic Commerce. Perspectives on History, 46 (7), (pp. 55-57).
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Presentations
- The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa
- Conference Name: Graduate Institute
- Sponsoring Organization: Graduate Institute
- Location: Geneva
- Date: September 11, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- La traite au bas-Congo, 1830-1890
- Conference Name: Musée d'Aquitaine
- Sponsoring Organization: Musée d'Aquitaine
- Location: Bordeaux
- Date: May, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- Slavery, Crime and Punishment in Early Colonial Kongo
- Conference Name:
- Location: Quebec City
- Date: May 3, 2012
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- Labor Recruitment in Northern Angola and the Collapse of a Moral Order, 1910-1913
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: November 19, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- Christian Missions in Early Colonial Kongo: a History of Appropriation and Political Schism
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boston
- Date: January 6, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- Portugal e o Reino do Congo, 1860-1913. Uma tragédia inevitável?
- Conference Name:
- Location: Ponta Delgada
- Date: October 29, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- The Kingdom of Kongo, c. 1880
- Conference Name: Mbanza Kongo
- Sponsoring Organization: Mbanza Kongo
- Date: September 17, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Vos, J.
- 2011: Faculty Proposal Preparation Program, Old Dominion University
- 2011: Summer Research Grant, Old Dominion University
- 2004: Postgraduate Research Support, School of Oriental and African Studies
- 2004: Postgraduate Research Support Grant, Royal Historical Society
- 2004: Short Term Training Bursary/Conference Grant, Royal Historical Society
- 2000: Central Research Fund Grant, University of London
- 2000: Fieldwork Award, School of Oriental and African Studies
- 1998: Nuffic Talent Program Scholarship, Netherlands
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research