African and Comparative History.

Dr. Adell Patton, Jr., Ph.D.

Works of Dr. Patton

Published Articles

Dictionary of Medical Biography Articles

Liberia and Containment Policy Against Colonial Take -Over: Public Health and Sanitation Reform, 1912-1953

Dr. Boyle, MD
Dr. Easmon, MD
Dr. Odeku, MD
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Patton on Odeku mentioned in the New England Journal of Medicine
Dr. Togba

2005: Liberian Studies Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (December 2005), pp. 40-65: Liberia and Containment Policy Against Colonial Take-Over: Public Health and Sanitation Reform, 1912-1953

Kentucky African-American Immigrants to Liberia, 1820-43

Keynote Address, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria: "Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Democracy

2004: Kentucky Ancestors - Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Summer 2004), pp. 174-181: Kentucky African-American Immigrants to Liberia, 1820-43

2003: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Democracy in the United States of America, Ibadan: For the American Studies Association of Nigeria (ASAN), Humanities Press, pp. 3-60: Keynote Address, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria: "Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Democracy in America and in Africa Compared: Who is a Citizen in Africa?"

Howard University and Meharry Medical Schools in the Training of African Physicians, 1868-1978

The "Back-to-Africa" Movement in Arkansas

1993: Global Dimensions of The African Diaspora, 2nd Ed, Howard University Press, pp. 109-123: Howard University and Meharry Medical Schools in the Training of African Physicians, 1868-1978

1992: Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. LI, No. 2, pp. 164-177: The "Back-to-Africa" Movement in Arkansas

Dr. John Farrell Easmon: Medical Professionalism and Colonial Racism in the Gold Coast, 1856-1900

An Islamic Frontier Polity: The Ningi Mountains of Northern Nigeria, 1846-1902

1989: The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 601-636, plus 19th century photos and figures: Dr. John Farrell Easmon: Medical Professionalism and Colonial Racism in the Gold Coast, 1856-1900

1987: The African Frontier - The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies, Indiana University Press, pp. 195-213: An Islamic Frontier Polity: The Ningi Mountains of Northern Nigeria, 1846-1902

“Tarikh 'Umara Bauchi and Its Contribution to Pre-Colonial Ningi Resistance to Sokoto Caliphate: Exegesis and Methodology in African Oral History, ca. 1846-1902”

Ningi Raids and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Sokoto Caliphate

1985: A Current Bibliography on African Affairs, pp. 1-10: "Tarikh 'Umara Bauchi and Its Contribution to Pre-Colonial Ningi Resistance to Sokoto Caliphate: Exegesis and Methodology in African Oral History, ca. 1846-1902”

1982: Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 114-145: Ningi Raids and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Sokoto Caliphate

E. Mayfield Boyle: 1902 Howard University Medical School Graduate's Challenge to British Medical Policy in West Africa

Howard University and Meharry Medical Schools in the Training of African Physicians, 1868-1978

1982: The Journal of Negro History, Vol. LXVII, No. 1, pp. 52-61: E. Mayfield Boyle: 1902 Howard University Medical School Graduate's Challenge to British Medical Policy in West Africa

1982: Global Dimensions of The African Diaspora, 1st Ed, Howard University Press, pp. 142-162: Howard University and Meharry Medical Schools in the Training of African Physicians, 1868-1978

Ningi Succession Order with Praise Songs in Nigerian Hausaland, ca. 1730-1973

Oral Tradition in the Reconstruction of Ningi History ca. 1880-1908

1982: Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Geneolgical Society, pp. 1-13: Ningi Succession Order with Praise Songs in Nigerian Hausaland, ca. 1730-1973

1981: KIABARA Journal of the Humanities University of Port Harcourt, pp. 105-125: Oral Tradition in the Reconstruction of Ningi History ca. 1880-1908

The Name Ningi and Developing Pre-Colonial Citizenship - A Non-Tribal Perspective in Nineteenth Century Hausaland

The African Diaspora: Africans and Their Descendants in the Wider World to 1800

1980: Afrika Und Ubersee (Hamburg, Germany), pp. 241-252: The Name Ningi and Developing Pre-Colonial Citizenship - A Non-Tribal Perspective in Nineteenth Century Hausaland

         

The African Diaspora: Africans and Their Descendants in the Wider World to 1800. The Black Diaspora Committee of Howard University, editor (Lexington, Mass: Ginn Press 1986), pp. 396. Patton was a member of The Black Diaspora Committee and wrote four introductions to the various sections: Part III: Africa and The Diaspora, 600-1500 A.D.; Part IV: Trans-Atlantic Diaspora, 1500-1800, Impact on Africa; Part V: Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Diaspora, 15001800, African Societies in North Africa; Impact on Africa-Slavery in Savanna in Era of the Jihads. (Out of Print, copies on Reserve, UMSL).Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents 2.

The African Diaspora: Africans and Their Descendants in the Wider World. 1800 to Present.

Lee County History

         

The African Diaspora: Africans and Their Descendants in the Wider World. 1800 to Present. The Black Diaspora Committee of Howard University, editor (Lexington, Mass; Ginn Press, 1988), 400 pp. Patton was a member of The Black Diaspora Committee and wrote three introductions to various sections: Part V: Black Diasporic Communities and the "Return"; Part VIII: Africa Reconsidered, 1880-1950; Part IX: Self-Determination and the Diaspora, ca. 1945-1980 (essay). (Out of Print, copies on Reserve, UMSL). Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents 2.

Lee County History, Curtis Media Corporation, Dallas, Texas: 1987.

1987: History of Lee County Arkansas, Vol. I, Lee County Sesquicentennial (1836), 1987, pp. 382.

      *Patton is credited with two essays and excerpted from his "Black Family Migration in-and-out: 'Back to Africa' Movement in Arkansas History," presented to Arkansas Historical Association Conference (March 1984), Conway, pp. 1-34: (1) "History of Haynes, Arkansas," pp. 31-32; (2) "Patton Family History 1830-1988," p. 310.
Archives, Library of Congress, Lee County Court House and from oral history interviews in Arkansas, St. Louis, and Chicago.

THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (NEW TEACHING EXPERTISE, 1975-1994 at Howard University Washington, D.C.; 1994-present, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri ).

TV Teaching (Electronic Media), Division of Continuing Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (VHS ca. 58 Minutes Plus Class Discussions): "The African Encounter in The New World," Fall 1991.

1989: "The Road To Lincoln High School: Afro-American Educator In Historical Perspective" (Prof. C.T. Cobb), Alumni Journal, Lincoln High School, Forrest City, Arkansas, Maroon & Gold National  Alumni Association, Inc.,  Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter.

1969:
"Afro-American Studies: Comments," Daily Cardinal, Vol.LXXX:No.61, Friday, University of Wisconsin-Madison: l2).
 
1958: "Erroll Gardner To Play," Thoroughbred, Freshman Edition (September, 1958) :1, 4, Kentucky State College (University in 1972), Frankfort, KY.

Books

Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa

Ethnicity, Citizenship and Democracy in the United States of America

A social history of medicine in West Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Available on Amazon.com

A collection of essays that delineate the path from exclusion to inclusion and citizenship of disparate groups within the USA.

Reviews by Dr. Patton

Review of African-American Exploration in West Africa - Four Nineteenth Century Diaries

Review of Warm Climates and Western Medcine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900

The Journal of African History,  Vol. 46, No. 3, 2005:  Review of African-American Exploration in West Africa - Four Nineteenth Century Diaries, Eds. James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek, Svend E. Holsoe, Melissa Leach

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1998: Review of Warm Climates and Western Medcine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900. Edited by David Arnold

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2000: Review of Early Medical Schools in Nigeria by Adelola Adeloye

Africana Publishing Company: Review of Pilgrims in a Strange Land, Hausa Communities in Chad by John A. Works

Reviews of Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora

Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Nancy Gallagher

Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Harriet Deacon

The American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 4, October 1997: Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Nancy Gallagher

The Journal of African History, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1997: Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Harriet Deacon

How Europe Underdeveloped African Medicine

International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 22, 1999:
Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by C. Bawa Yamba (IHCAR, The Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 71, No. 4, Winter, 1997:
Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Jonathan Sadowsky

Canadian Journal of African History, 1999:
Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Murray Last

Journal of the History of Medicine: 
Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Margaret E. Humphreys, MD, PhD

Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999:
Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by Amos J. Beyan

CHOICE, Vol. 34, No. 3, November 1996:
Review of Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa by R.E. Darnell