Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
In this talk, Jennifer L Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth century to explore questions of methodology and evidence in the early history of the black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.
Date:
11 November 2022, 16:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details:
Colin Matthew Room
Speaker:
Jennifer Morgan (NYU)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
