Stephen D. Behrendt

{{Short description|New Zealand social scientist}}

Stephen D. Behrendt is a historian at Victoria University Wellington who specialises in the transatlantic slave trade. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.{{cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/hppi/about/staff/steve-behrendt|title=Steve Behrendt - School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations - Victoria University of Wellington|website=www.victoria.ac.nz}}

His updating of James A. Rawley's The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, originally published by Norton in 1981,{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/88/2/361/164868|title=James A. Rawley. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New York: W. W. Norton. 1981. Pp. xiv, 452. $24.95|first=Herbert S.|last=Klein|date=1 April 1983|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=88|issue=2|pages=361–362|via=academic.oup.com|doi=10.1086/ahr/88.2.361|url-access=subscription}} was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2005.{{cite journal|title=The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition. By JAMES RAWLEY with STEPHEN D. BEHRENDT. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+441. £38.5 (ISBN 0-8032-3961-0).|first=Patrick|last=Manning|journal=The Journal of African History|volume=47|issue=3|pages=529|doi=10.1017/S0021853706452439|year=2006|s2cid=163066637 }} In 2010, he co-edited an edition of The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader with A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup.{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-diary-of-antera-duke-an-eighteenth-century-african-slave-trader-9780195376180?cc=us&lang=en&|title=The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader|date=8 March 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-537618-0 }}{{cite journal|title=The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (review)|first=Paul E.|last=Lovejoy|date=5 May 2011|journal=Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History|volume=12|issue=1|doi=10.1353/cch.2011.0004|s2cid=161970987 }}{{cite journal|title=A FIRST HAND PERSPECTIVE ON THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE - The Diary of Antera Duke, An Eighteenth-century African Slave Trader. By Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. latham, and David Northrup. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+300. £45/$75 hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-537618-0).|first=Walter|last=Hawthorne|journal=The Journal of African History|volume=51|issue=3|pages=411–412|doi=10.1017/S002185371000054X|year=2010|s2cid=232253398 }}