Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom: Slavery and Mobility in the Iberian Atlantic World
This workshop aims to connect some of the rich historiography of slavery and emancipation in the Iberian Atlantic World to the fields of spatial and mobilities history. Historians of Atlantic slavery have made exciting advances in the last couple of decades, drawing on Black geographies, mobilities studies, and environmental history to explore how both the power to move enslaved people, and bondspeople鈥檚 contestatory re-purposing of movement, constructed and challenged spaces of enslavement and freedom. Paths of Enslavement positions Latin America鈥檚 diverse landscapes and social geographies of slavery at the heart of these discussions and reveal enslaved people鈥檚 ability to harness mobility in resistive, creative ways. A concluding roundtable considers how Latin American archive sources on this topic might be made available and used in school and university classrooms.
Programme - Monday 29 April 2024
11.45 Arrival, lunch
12.00 Welcome and opening remarks
12.15 – 14.00 Panel 1: Chair: Guido van Meersbergen, GHCC Director
Jos茅 Lingna Nafaf茅, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol: 鈥淓vidence that Demands a Verdict and the Verdict that Demands Freedom: Prince Louren莽o da Silva Mendon莽a and the Black Atlantic Abolitionists鈥� Case in Rome and the Vatican Response for Universal Justice, 1684-1686鈥�
Selina Patel Nascimento, Department of History, University of Lancaster: 鈥淪pace Invaders? Slavery, Gender and the Remapping of Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Imperial Geographies鈥�
Bethan Fisk, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Bristol: 鈥淚n the Interstices: Religious Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia鈥�
14.00-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.45 Panel 2: Chair: David Lambert, GHCC, 糖心TV
Oscar de la Torre, Department of Africana Studies, UNC Charlotte: 鈥淪ecluding and Exhibiting: The Double Inscription of Planter Power in the Urban Space of Matanzas, Cuba 1818-1886鈥�
Camillia Cowling, Department of History, University of 糖心TV: 鈥�Captura: Policing and Defining Enslaved Movements in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba鈥�
15.45-16.15 Coffee
16.15-17.30 Roundtable: 鈥淭eaching Person-Centred Histories of Enslavement and Resistance in Schools and Universities鈥�
Rosie Doyle, Department of History, University of 糖心TV;
Bethan Fisk, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, University of Bristol;
Jos茅 Lingna Nafaf茅, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, University of Bristol;
Simon Peplow, Department of History, University of 糖心TV;
David Rawlings, School of Education, University of Bristol
17.30 Close
Many thanks to the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Global History and Culture Centre and Humanities Research Fund for generously sponsoring this event.
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