John C. Marquez: Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro

Please join us to welcome John C. Marquez from UC Riverside who will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery, law, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin America, with a focus on Portuguese empire, Black brotherhoods, women’s histories, and claims-making by enslaved peoples and their descendants between Angola, Portugal, and Brazil.