This conference gathers faculty and graduate students participating in the MRPI project “Routes of Enslavement in the Americas,” a research collaboration led by professors Alex Borucki (UCI), Greg O'Malley (UCSC), and Sabrina Smith (UCM). The project focuses on three research areas: 1) inter-regional movements of African and African-descended captives within colonial Mexico (including California and other parts of what is now the United States and Central America), 2) exploration of the Black Pacific Worlds through coastal trafficking routes connecting ports in California, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, and 3) Caribbean migrations (both coerced and voluntary) of African-descended populations, between islands and with the mainland Americas.
Friday, Oct. 17, 9:00-11:00 AM
The United States and the Caribbean, First part
Chair: Greg O'Malley, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Department of History, UC Berkeley
“[T]he dame was the actual owner of the craft”: Female Ship Owners in the Slave Voyages Database
Amanda Faulkner, Department of History, Critical Race, & Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Mobility and Power in the Seventeenth Century
Lizzie McCord, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Freedom in the Florida Borderlands: Rebels and Refugees in the late Second Spanish Period
Kevin Dawson, Department of History, Critical Race, & Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Subaquatic Empire: Enslaved Salvage Divers and the Making of the English Empire.
Friday, Oct. 17, 11:15 AM-12:45 PM
The United States and the Caribbean, Second Part
Chair: Jessica Millward, Department of History, UC Irvine
Justin Dunnavant, Department of Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
Historic Corals and Plantation Futures in St. Croix
Manuel Covo, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara
Paper-Money, Slavery, and Taxation in the French colonies in the Age of Revolutions
Jungki Min, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara
Safeguarding Family Wealth: Free People of Color in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
Friday, Oct. 17, 2:15-4:15 PM
From the Caribbean to the Pacific, First Part
Chair: Alex Borucki, Department of History, UC Irvine
Juan Cobo and Andreina Soto, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara
Enslavement, Movement, and Freedom in Colombia and Venezuela
Karol Alzate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley
Bogando through Mompox - a journey alongside Candelario Obeso
Bree Booth, Department of Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Robar y Seducir: The Case of Jose Eusebio Rodriguez
Friday, Oct. 17, 4:30-6 PM
From the Caribbean to the Pacific, Second Part
Chair: Alex Borucki, Department of History, UC Irvine
Celia Cussen, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Chile
The King’s Captain: Manuel de Orejuela presents a Spanish slaving project, 1778.
Rachel O'Toole, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Carework, Parenthood, and Protection in the Politics of Peruvian Colonial Freedom
Anthony Jerry, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside
Conceptualizing the Pacific as a Black Geography
Saturday, Oct. 18, 9:00 AM-12:30 PM
Mexico and California: A Roundtable on trayectoriasafro.org and africancalifornios.org
Chair: Sabrina Smith, Department of History, Critical Race, & Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Gabriela Iturralde, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Programa Nacional de Investigación Afrodescendientes y Diversidad Cultural, Mexico
Jairo Melo, Research Data Librarian, UC Santa Barbara Library
Alvaro Alcantara, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Sede Veracruz, Mexico
Berenice Tepozano, Department of History, UC Irvine
Break 10:30-10:45 AM
Pablo Sierra, Department of History, University of Rochester
Virginia Mateo, Department of History, Critical Race, & Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Cameron Jones: Department of History, Cali Poly San Luis Obispo
Comments: Daryle Williams, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UC Riverside
Organized by the “Routes of Enslavement in the Americas” project (funded by the UC Office of the President, Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives), with additional support from the UCI Humanities Center and the Department of History.
Banner Image: Kathie L. Foley-Meyer, PhD, UCI Visual Studies, https://kf-m.com/