The Intra-American Slave Trade and Traffic to the Spanish Americas
Alex Borucki
WHEN
Wednesday | 10 Oct, 12:00 PM
WHERE
238 HRCB
Wednesday | 10 Oct, 12:00 PM
WHERE
238 HRCB
This presentation examines the intra-American traffic in slaves, a traffic which brought captive Africans from British, Dutch, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas to Spanish colonies, among other places. This subject has received scant attention from scholars, especially in the period before the abolition of the slave trade. In addition, this presentation will introduce the new design and intra-American dataset for the Slave Voyages web site, at www.slavevoyages.org.
Alex Borucki is an associate professor of history at the University of California–Irvine, where he is also director of the Latin American Studies Center. Borucki is the author of numerous articles, as well as the book From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata.