Marta Dijkhoff
From being a language and education planner, researcher and teacher in the 1980s, she became, in the 1990s, Minister of Education Culture, Youth and Sport Affairs for the Netherlands Antilles as well as in 1998 for Welfare, Family and Humanitarian Affairs. Between 1998 until 2014, she worked as a consultant on different projects on the crossroad of learning and innovation on the former islands of the Netherlands Antilles. From 2015 to 2017 she was the senior adviser of the Minister of Education. At present she is the director of the National Language Institute of Curacao. Professor Dijkhoff has been the lead designer of the Papiamentu Master program for high school teachers at the University of Aruba. She holds a Doctor degree in General Linguistics, from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Among many other social experiences we would highlight her leadership as Chairman of Alsa Papiamentu, a foundation for awareness on the importance of the native language to the development of the community (since 2007) and as Chairman of the National Council for Education and Labor (Raad voor Onderwijs en Arbeid), an advisory committee for the Minister of Education of the Netherlands Antilles (2002 – 2006).
“The history of the Creole language Papiamentu”
In this keynote, I want to address the history of the Creole language Papiamentu and its position as a matrix language. That is, the language that is associated with the inclusive culture of the island and which has provided the environment in which other languages have been allowed to take root and thrive over the past two centuries. It has enabled Curacao, but also Aruba and Bonaire to reach an impressive multilingual capability.
Willem Klooster
Wim Klooster is Professor and Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University, where he has taught since 2003. He has published widely on the Dutch Atlantic, smuggling, Jewish history, and the age of revolutions. His books include Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents (2021), Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815 (2018, co-authored with Gert Oostindie), Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (new edition, 2018), The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016), and Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795 (1998). Klooster is also the editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions (2023).
“Radical Royalism in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions”
The independence era in Latin America ended monarchical rule in Spain’s former colonies while transforming it in Brazil. Across the Americas, many of the subaltern remained loyal to their monarchs, often in the belief that these would allow them to bring about a radically different society. Who this monarch was depended on the context – it could be the Spanish king (even while in forced exile), Túpac Amaru, the Brazilian emperor or an African queen. This lecture will map the belief in an emancipating monarch for six areas: New Granada, Peru/Upper Peru, Mexico, the Río de la Plata, Brazil, and the (circum-)Caribbean.
Alejandro De la Fuente
Alejandro De la Fuente
Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. His works on comparative slavery, racial inequality, and Afrodescendant mobilization have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. He is the founding director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard. His most recent books are the award-winning Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (2020, co-authored with Ariela J. Gross) and Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction (2018, coedited with George Reid Andrews). He is also the curator of several art exhibits dealing with racism in Cuba, including Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (2010-2012); Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba (2013-2015); Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (2017-2022), and El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art (ongoing).
Professor de la Fuente currently directs the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies, a Ford Foundation-funded collaborative network that includes universities and research groups in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He is also the co-editor, with George Reid Andrews, of the book series Afro-Latin America, at Cambridge University Press.
“Their “exquisite works”: Rewriting the Art History of Cuba”
This lecture summarizes some of the research that sustained the art exhibit El Pasaso Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art (Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, September 2022-June 2023) and is based on a book in progress coauthored with Cary A. García Yero. By centering the artistic production and the social worlds of artists of African descent in Cuba since the colonial period, the exhibition and the book suggest new approaches, questions, chronologies, and sources to the history of the visual arts in Cuba and Latin America.
Sergio GUERRA VILABOY
Sergio GUERRA VILABOY
Historiador cubano, Profesor Titular de Historia de América Latina y Director del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de la Habana. Presidente de Honor de la Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (ADHILAC) y Académico de Número de la Academia de la Historia de Cuba, Correspondiente de la de Ecuador y la Iberoamericana de la Rábida en España. Ph. D. en Historia por la Universidad de Leipzig (Alemania). Dirige el programa de doctorados en Historia de la Universidad de La Habana. Autor de más de setecientos artículos, ensayos y libros. Entre sus obras más recientes América Latina después de la independencia (2019), Historias asombrosas de nuestra América (2022) y Cubanacán, la nación imaginada (2023). Su libro digital, editado en Minas Geraes (2021), La Revolución Cubana. Un nuevo panorama de su historia (1953-2020), supera las cincuenta mil descargas. En 2018 recibió el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas y en 2023 la Orden Frank País de primer grado.
“Vindicación de la conspiración de los Soles y Rayos de Bolívar”
La presente ponencia está dirigida a fundamentar la tesis de que la primera conspiración independentista de Cuba fue la que abortó en 1823 y que es conocida como de Soles y Rayos de Bolívar. Sólo después de iniciada la tercera década del siglo XIX fue que las condiciones maduraron lo suficiente para el surgimiento de este movimiento que declaró sin ambages su propósito de conseguir la independencia de España, lo que fue establecido sin vacilación en sus proclamas y acciones.
Las condiciones favorables para su desarrollo surgieron durante el trienio liberal (1820-1823) en España, cuando criollos de diferentes estratos sociales, en su mayoría del occidente y centro de la Isla, pudieron vertebrar las primeras organizaciones secretas y logias masónicas dirigidas a difundir nuevas ideas y subvertir el orden existente. Ello ocurrió antes que el padre Félix Varela se inclinara por la independencia, en septiembre de 1823, después del fracaso de la conspiración de los Soles y Rayos y del restablecimiento del absolutismo por Fernando VII.
FRANK MOYA PONS
FRANK MOYA PONS
Frank Moya Pons recibió su doctorado en Historia Latinoamericana y Desarrollo Económico en Columbia University, en Nueva York. Fue profesor de Historia Latinoamericana en esa misma universidad y de Historia del Caribe en la Universidad de Florida. Enseñó Historia Dominicana en la Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, en Santiago, República Dominicana. Fue director de investigaciones del Instituto de Estudios Dominicanos en The City College de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY), y director de investigaciones del Fondo para el Avance de las Microempresa, FondoMicro, en Santo Domingo. Aun cuando ya está retirado de la cátedra regular, mantiene una intensa actividad como conferencista académico en congresos seminarios y simposios. Es autor de una treintena de libros de Historia. Entre ellos se destacan: La Explicación Histórica (2021); Breve Historia Monetaria de la República Dominicana 1848-1948 (2020); Otras Miradas a la Historia Dominicana (2017); El Oro en la Historia Dominicana (2016); El Gran Cambio: La Transformación Económica y Social de la República Dominicana 1963-2013 (2014); Los Taínos: El Debate Demográfico (2013); Bibliografía de la Historia Dominicana (3 vols., 2013); Invasión y Conquista de la Española (2012); La Otra Historia Dominicana (2008); Historia del Caribe (2008); Breve Historia Contemporánea de la República Dominicana (1999); Empresarios en Conflicto: Políticas de Industrialización y Sustitución de Importaciones en la República Dominicana (1992); Pioneros de la Banca Dominicana (1989); El Pasado Dominicano (1986); Manual de Historia Dominicana (1977); Historia Colonial de Santo Domingo (1973); La Dominación Haitiana (1972); La Española en el Siglo XVI (1971).
“Resistencias tempranas a la primera invasión europea en América”
Esta conferencia mostrará que la resistencia aborigen a la invasión europea comenzó pocos días después de la llegada de Cristóbal Colón y su gente a la isla de Haití, bautizada por él con el nombre Española en 1492. A partir de entonces, y en los años siguientes, la resistencia fue notoria pues, además de las guerras de Macorix, Higüey y Jaraguá, los nativos se opusieron a la dominación europea mediante la evasión, el cimarronaje y el sabotaje económico. La exposición examina la llamada Guerra del Baoruco, larga rebelión del famoso cacique Enriquillo que tuvo lugar entre 1519 ya 1533, y su muestra su coincidencia cronológica con las primeras rebeliones de esclavos recientemente importados de África endurecimiento que, a su vez, llevaron al endurecimiento del control europeo sobre la mano de obra servil y, en respuesta, a la ocurrencia de nuevos levantamientos y el establecimiento de los primeros palenques y „naciones“ africanas en América.
Karin Harrasser
Karin Harrasser
Karin Harrasser is professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Arts Linz as well as Vice Rector for Research. After studying history and German language and literature, she received her doctorate in 2005 with a dissertation on the narratives of digital cultures at the University of Vienna. This was followed by a research assistant position at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and various guest professorships in Germany and Colombia. Habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin (with the book: „Prothesen. Figuren einer lädierten Moderne“, published 2016). In addition to her academic activities, she has been involved in various artistic and curatorial projects, e.g. at Kampnagel Hamburg, Tanzquartier Wien or with MAPA Teatro and the Colombian Truth Commission in Bogotá. Her research currently focuses on cultural violence and asymmetrical cultural transfers between Europe and Latin America. She is also researching on the relation between globalization and contemporary history as well as on visual culture and resistance in Bolivia. Recent books: Surazo. Monika und Hans Ertl: Eine deutsche Geschichte in Bolivien (2022), transatlantic history of nationalsocialist networks and left militant activism, Gegenentkommen (2023), about the cultural politics of the Colombian peace process.
“Female, indigenous and entangled resistance. New narratives for emancipation”
The lecture will refer to critical moments and different modes of resistance that are still often overlooked because their subjects are hard to grasp or because the movements operated somewhere inbetween patterns of political history. I will start with the Taki Onqoy movement (Peru 16th century) that summoned the then forbidden deities to protest against conquest and occupation. It was a popular, heterogenious movement that spread quickly throughout the Andes and did not use militancy but ritual means for resistance. Jumping to the 20th century I will first recall the role of the Bolivian Comité de Amas de Casa de la mina Siglo XX resisting the Banzer-dictatorship. Then I will discuss central contribution of women (both of Latinamerican and of European origin) in the armed Guerilla movements of the 60ies and 70ies. Based on the three case-studies popular and historiographic modes of narrating resistance will be questioned and a model that strengthens multiplicity, entanglement and inventive practices will be presented.
Jane Landers
Jane Landers
Jane Landers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History and Director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive at Vanderbilt University. SSDA preserves the oldest and largest collection of historical documents for Africans in the Atlantic World. Since 2015 she has served as the U.S. member on UNESCO’s International Scientific Committee for the Routes of Enslaved Peoples.
Her award-winning monographs include Black Society in Spanish Florida and Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions and she is the co-author or editor of five other books. She has also published more than seventy journal articles and book chapters dealing with the history of Africans in Florida and in the Atlantic World.Her research has been supported by the Historical St. Augustine Research Institute, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, among others.
Landers currently serves on the editorial boards of the William & Mary Quarterly, the Cambridge History of the Caribbean, Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World, PerspectivasAfro, Esclavages & post-esclavages, Atlantic World, and Slavery & Abolition.
“African Kingdoms, Black Republics & Free Black Towns in Colonial Spanish America”
This paper traces the evolution of maroon communities in the Spanish colonial world from their earliest formulations as sixteenth-century African kingdoms through their last vestiges as free black towns in the eighteenth century. In their earliest stages, communities of escaped slaves created virtual monarchies in the wild. They soon outnumbered Spaniards in places like Santo Domingo, Vera Cruz, and Cartagena who launched a series of expeditions against them. Casting themselves as good Christian princes and knights in the battles, they also constructed the maroons as „infidels“ and „pagans“ to be vanquished or subjected. Spaniards preferred the former outcome, but if maroon settlements proved too difficult and costly to eliminate, Spaniards drew on medieval law to „pacify“ and „Christianize“ the conquered, recasting them as tributary vassals and military allies. For a brief moment in the seventeenth century, one group in Mexico even represented themselves as a „Republic“ analogous to that of Spaniards and Indios. By the eighteenth century, maroon settlements often vested leadership in acculturated creoles who negotiated treaties with the Spaniards and were transformed into legitimate towns. Despite great ethnolinguistic diversity, maroons managed political and cultural accommodations which enabled them to survive for more than three centuries despite determined efforts to eradicate them.
Hector Lindo Fuentes
Hector Lindo Fuentes
El historiador salvadoreño Héctor Lindo-Fuentes es profesor emérito de historia en la Universidad de Fordham en Nueva York y miembro de la Academia Salvadoreña de la Historia. Él obtuvo su doctorado en historia en la Universidad de Chicago y ha sido miembro del cuerpo docente de la Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañas, la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign, la Universidad de California en Santa Barbara y la Universidad de Fordham. Además, ha impartido cursos en la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York, la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles y la Universidad de Costa Rica entre otras instituciones. Es autor de numerosos artículos y libros sobre la historia de El Salvador y Centroamérica. Su libro Weak Foundations. The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century fue designado por la revista Choice como „Outstanding Academic Book“. Otro libro, Modernizing Minds: Education Reform, Modernization and Cold War Politics in El Salvador, 1960-1980, escrito con Erik Ching, recibió el Alfred B. Thomas Award al mejor libro sobre un tema latinoamericano publicado por un miembro del Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Sus monografías más recientes son El alborotador de Centroamérica. El Salvador frente al imperio y 1921 El Salvador en el año del centenario de la independencia.
“Antiimperialismo y sufragio femenino en El Salvador”
La reacción popular en El Salvador a las políticas estadounidenses posteriores a la guerra hispano-estadounidense de 1898 fue sumamente intensa. A partir de la invasión de marines a Nicaragua en 1912 el antiimperialismo de artesanos, mujeres, estudiantes e intelectuales fue una de las fuerzas más poderosas en la política doméstica del país y los gobernantes tenían que tomarla en consideración principalmente para sus decisiones de política exterior. El antiimperialismo fue una de las principales causas de la sociedad civil emergente de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. En estas circunstancias aumentó la militancia política de las mujeres que participaron en acciones antiimperialistas. Luego se afiliaron al movimiento de unión de Centroamérica como estrategia no solamente para contrarrestar la agresividad estadounidense sino también para impulsar una Centroamérica más democrática con sufragio femenino.
Tomás Straka
Tomás Straka
Director del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas „Hermann González Oropeza, sj“, de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas). Es Individuo de Número de la Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela). Ha sido profesor invitado en universidades de Estados Unidos, México y Colombia. Columnista en varios portales, como Debates IESA, Nueva Sociedad y Prodavinci, es autor de diversos títulos que incluyen ensayos, monografías y manuales. Se destacan: La voz de los vencidos. Ideas del Partido Realista de Caracas, 1810-1821; La épica del desencanto. Bolivarianismo, historiografía y política en Venezuela; y La República fragmentada. Claves para entender a Venezuela. Coordinó Las independencias de Iberoamérica con Michael Zeuske y Agustín Sánchez Andrés; y Raúl Leoni. Democracia en la tormenta, en dos volúmenes.
„Los Afroamericanos y la invención del sur“
Cuando en 1943 Juan Pablo Sojo publicó sus Temas y apuntes afro-venezolanos, no sólo estaba marcando un hito al presentar una reflexión sobre las culturas de raíz africana desde uno de sus miembros, sino que también demostraba una toma de conciencia sobre África, hasta entonces básicamente olvidada entre los venezolanos. Su caso no era único. Por aquellos años en toda la región se articulaba un paso de la identidad de negro a la de afrovenezolano, afrocubano, afroamericano. Fue un cambio de importantes implicaciones culturales y políticas. Al redescubrir su propia africanía, los latinoamericanos dieron un paso muy importante en la construcción de la idea de Sur, en la que empezaron a entrever un destino estaba compartido con el de los países africanos, sus luchas anticoloniales y sus sueños de desarrollo. Muchas veces es una África inventada e imaginada, vista desde el tamiz eurocéntrico, que era el único que tenían a la mano, en la que no se abandona la idea de civilizadores y salvadores, como las de Marcus Garvey, o incluso las del Che Guevara en su incursión en el Congo, pero que tendió un puente que en poco tiempo se tradujo en acercamientos tan importantes y concretos como el apoyo diplomático latinoamericano al proceso de descolonización, a veces de formas tan concretas como las intervenciones cubanas en Angola y Namibia; o intercambios de tanto impacto como el conciertos de la Fania en el Congo.
Justin Wolfe
Justin Wolfe
Justin Wolfe received his Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles (1999) is Associate Professor of History and Suzanne & Stephen Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also taught at the Universidad Centroamericana (Managua, Nicaragua) and the Universidad de Costa Rica (San José). He is the author of The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua (Nebraska, 2007) and co-editor of Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place (Duke, 2010). He works primarily on 19th-century Central America and is currently completely a manuscript on race and empire in the era of the California Gold Rush as told through the lens of a microhistory of San Juan del Norte/Greytown, the eastern terminus of the proposed Nicaraguan canal route.
“The Native and Colored Party: Race, Politics and Empire in Caribbean Nicaragua, 1848-1854”
The port town of San Juan del Norte, which the British rechristened Greytown in 1848, served as a flash point for struggles over empire and race in a decade that saw the international expansion of U.S. Manifest Destiny, the California Gold Rush, and Anglo-American struggles over a potential canal route across Nicaragua. What is sometimes acknowledged but has been almost completely ignored from an analytical standpoint is that the town’s population was dominated by people of African descent—from the U.S., the Caribbean, and Nicaragua itself. This wasn’t simply a question of demographics: free people of color owned many of the most important businesses and served in positions of power, including mayor, town council, and police. This created a fascinating experiment in Black political freedom in the context of intensifying North American racism. This space of the African Diaspora, however, also offers the opportunity to explore how such a project navigated the differing conceptions of race and politics of emancipation among Afro-descendants from Nicaragua (emancipated since the early 1820s), the West Indies (free since 1838), and the U.S. (where slavery would remain until 1865). My paper will analyze a wide array of sources in English, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch, to explore how questions of race intersected with both the construction of Greytown, alternatively, as a multiracial polity and a pirate’s den.
Verene A. Shepherd
Verene A. Shepherd
Verene A. Shepherd, graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Cambridge; Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and Hon. Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge, is Professor Emerita of Gender and History at The UWI. She is also the Chair of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the oldest Treaty Body in the UN System, that implements the International Convention on the elimination of Racial Discrimination. Prof Shepherd is the first Jamaican/CARICOM Citizen and the first Black Woman of African Descent in the African Diaspora to chair this Committee in its over 50 years. As a UN expert she has played a role in the drafting of the Programme of Activities for the UN International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024); and in the adoption of CERD General Recommendation 36 – “Preventing and Combatting Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement Officials. Prof. Shepherd is Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the UWI, a Vice-Chair of The CARICOM Reparations Commission and a member of the Jamaica National Council on Reparation. She is a published author/co-author, editor/co-editor of several books and refereed Journal articles. Among the books are: (with Gabrielle Hemmings) An Introduction to Reparation for Secondary Schools (The UWI Press, 2021); The Biography of Lucille Mathurin Mair (The UWI Press, 2020); Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica (Ian Randle, 2010); I Want to Disturb my Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Colonial Jamaica (Ian Randle Pubs, 2007); and Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean (UWI Press, 2002). She has lectured widely at Universities in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the wider Caribbean, Canada, Europe, The UK, The USA and Latin America.
“Women, the Anti-colonial Struggles & the Movement for Reparatory Justice“
It was Frederick Douglass who said “When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, women will occupy a large space in its pages; for the cause of the slave has been peculiarly woman’s cause”. Harriet Jacobs added: “My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each,” These quotations provide the philosophical basis for this presentation as they point to the major victims of chattel enslavement, who had no option but to participate in its abolition because of the brutality of African enslavement and its devastating impact. Women’s struggles for freedom were not, of course, confined to the period of chattel enslavement; but their anti-slavery struggles have dominated Caribbean Historiography because of the fundamental role they played in emancipation. This presentation will go beyond the period of enslavement to look at the long 19th and early 20th centuries as women joined the broader anti-colonial movement. The fundamental raison d’etre of the presentation, however, will be to highlight the ways in which the movement for reparatory justice has centred women and to reinforce the justification for singing praise songs to them.
Franklin W. Knight
Franklin W. Knight
Franklin W. Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History Emeritus and Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was born in Manchester, Jamaica and attended Calabar High School. A graduate of the University College of the West Indies-London [B. A. (Hons.) 1964], he gained the M. A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He taught for five years at the State University of New York in Stony Brook nd joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1973. Hed was a visiting lecturer at various times at the University of Texas in Austin, Howard University, Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Colgate University as well as the Universities of Huelva, Sevilla, and Pablo de Olavide in Spain.. He has served on academic advisory committees for Harvard University, Princeton University, City University of New York, Swarthmore College, Ohio University, Colgate University, The Schomburg Library, The University of Florida at Gainesville, and the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.
In 1991 he was appointed the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History. Between 1998 and 2001 he served as director of the Latin American Studies Program and in January 2011 he became the director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins.
„The Importance of the Caribbean and the Americas in the History of the Modern World“
History is the study of change over time covering all aspects of the human experience. Like language or music, a sense of history constitutes an essential dimension of every community. So, a sense of history also constitutes an inherent dimension of the sense of self. But, as the various UNESCO General Histories illustrate so well, a reliable sense of self can only be achieved in the context of a wider understanding of the broader context in which the identity is established. Equally important, all histories must be sensitive to time, place and circumstances as well as the reciprocal interplay between the local and the global. This lecture examines over time the crucial importance of the Caribbean in the making of the modern world.
Michael Zeuske
Michael Zeuske ist Senior Research Professor und PI am Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS; Exzellenz-Cluster) und emeritierter Professor für Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Geschichte an der Universität zu Köln. Er hat zahlreiche Publikationen zur Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Kulturgeschichte, zur Global- und zur Mikrogeschichte von Sklavereien und Sklavenhandelssystemen, Lateinamerika und der Karibik sowie zur Geschichte Neuzeit und zur atlantischen Geschichte vorgelegt. Ein Verzeichnis seiner Forschungsprojekte und Publikationen findet sich unter https://ihila.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/personal/ehemalige-emeriti/zeuske-prof-dr-michael und unter www.academia.edu.
“Esclavos y trabajo. Autorepresentación, ocupaciones laborales reales y resistencia en las Américas”
En la key-note presentaré los trabajos reales (es decir las „ocupaciones laborales“, en inglés es work en vez de „labor“) de los esclavos en la economía de hatos (sobre todo reses y caballos, así como carne y cueros), en las esclavitudes urbanas y en las economías de plantación (tabaco, azúcar, cacao, café, anil/ indigo, algodón) en todas las Américas. En algunas de esas estructuras existen auto-representaciones de los esclavizados mismos. En la conclusión comparo las posibilidades y realidades de las resistencias esclavas y sus bases estructurales.
David Eltis
David Eltis is Emeritus Professor of History at Emory University and the University of British Columbia as well as an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a founding member of the www.slavevoyages.org project and has published over a hundred articles, including six in the American Historical Review. He is also co-editor of the recently completed four volume Cambridge University Press’ World History of Slavery and along with David Richardson author of Yale University’s Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. His latest book will appear in the fall of this year and is entitled Atlantic Apocalypse: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades, also published by Cambridge.
“Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades (and the History of the Atlantic World)”
The Slavevoyages.org project is extensively used (averaging 2,000 visitors a day according to Google Analytics), but much of this traffic is to check facts and make connections – activities that might be termed micro-historical issues. Few have taken on board the macro-implications of the massive traffic across the Atlantic and from one part of the Americas to another. The data on those involved in the business as enslavers and the enslaved is largely ignored. The larger implications of the site remain unappreciated, especially for the huge traffic carried out entirely in the South Atlantic. We can now say that more slave voyages left from the Americas than from Europe; that the leading slave trading nation was Portugal rather then Britain; that after allowing for the intra-American traffic, two thirds of those forced on to slavers ended their lives in the Iberian Americas, the produce exports of which greatly exceeded in value those of the Anglophone and Francophone Americas before 1820; that the Portuguese slave trade was not only the largest traffic, but had unique advantages over competitors; finally, that it is now possible to track the transoceanic diaspora of major African language groups.