New Perspectives on Histories of the Slave Trade

Thursday, January 4, 2018: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
Palladian Ballroom (Omni Shoreham, West Lobby)
Chair:
Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles
Papers:
“The Coast Swarms with Slave Ships”: Slave Trading and Captives after Abolition
Emma Christopher, Monash University and Unshackled Media
Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, c.1770-1890
Janet J. Ewald, Duke University
Beyond the Atlantic Crossing: Reckoning with Captives' Multi-Staged Journeys through the Slave Trade
Gregory E. O'Malley, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Portuguese African Slave Trade and the Making of the Atlantic, 1450-1650
Dale W. Tomich, Binghamton University, State University of New York
16th-Century Slave Routes: Zapes and Magarabomba in the Early Iberian Atlantic
David Wheat, Michigan State University
Session Abstract
Commerce in human bondage during the early modern and modern eras has not only shaped the histories of peoples and nations but also played a key role in transnational history. The transportation by force of Africans and others across the seas has helped shape the modern political, economic, and cultural history of our world. The papers in this session will explore different aspects of slave trading in history, considering how a variety of human actors interacted in one of the most traumatic and horrible stories of human exploitation in the modern world.