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ABOUT THE BOOK
Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a sharedÌýBlack Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercelyÌýcontested and claimed. It recreates the worlds of extraordinary individuals andÌýcommunities in the long sixteenth century, whilst mapping the development ofÌýearly modern Black thought about slavery and freedom. From a free BlackÌýmother's embarkation license to cross the Atlantic Ocean, to an enslaved SevillianÌýwoman's epistles to her freed husband in New Spain, to an enslaved man'sÌýnegotiations with prospective buyers on the auction block in Mexico City, to aÌýBlack man's petition to reclaim his liberty after his illegitimate enslavement, ChloeÌýL. Ireton explores how Africans and their descendants reckoned with laws andÌýtheological discourses that legitimized the enslavement of Black people and theÌývaried meanings of freedom across legal jurisdictions. Their intellectual laborÌýreimagined the epistemic worlds of slavery and freedom in the early modernÌýAtlantic.

ABOUT THE EVENT
Join us for a roundtable discussion with author Chloe L. Ireton and respondents that are yet to be confirmed.
The discussion will be chaired byÌýMatthew J. Smith, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of theÌýLegacies of British Slavery, and author of Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica AfterÌýEmancipation (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), and Red and Black in Haiti:ÌýRadicalism, Conflict and Political Change, 1934-1957 (University of North Carolina Press,Ìý2009).

Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic will be published by in December 2024.Ìý

This event is supported by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Centre for Legacies of British Slavery, and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Centre for Transnational and Global History.