Participant Info
- First Name
- Alisha
- Last Name
- Topete-Cromwell
- Country
- United States
- State
- SC South Carolina
- acromwell@coastal.edu
- Affiliation
- Coastal Carolina University
- Website URL
- https://www.coastal.edu/history/faculty/
- Keywords
- Africa, African Diaspora, African American, Atlantic World, Capitalism, Digital History, Public History, Slavery, US History, US South, World Civilizations, Women’s History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Alisha M. Topete-Cromwell is an Assistant Professor of History at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, USA. By examining business relationships between elite and enslaved women in Africa, the Caribbean and the American South, Professor Cromwell argues that female entrepreneurs were integral to the development of economic culture in the global economies and local marketplaces of the nineteenth-century Atlantic World. She is also a dedicated teacher who uses a variety of techniques to engage students in active learning about our shared history.
- Recent Publications
“The Gendered Nature of Atlantic World Marketplaces: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth Century American Lowcountry” in Jennifer Aston and Catherine Bishop eds., Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan’s Economic History Series, 2020)
“Enslaved Women in the Savannah Marketplace” in Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry, eds., Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014), 53-4.
- Media Coverage
- 2016 Liberty and Slavery: The Paradox of America’s Founding Fathers, taped interview for documentary film, produced by A. Troy Thomas and Inertia Films. http://www.libertyandslavery.com/
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, Atlantic, Caribbean, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, Capitalism, Colonialism, Economic History, Emancipation, Food History, Gender, Politics, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Slavery, Women
