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Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires (Alex Borucki, UC Irvine)

November 1, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Please join us for the next meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alex Borucki, who will deliver a talk entitled “Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1700-1810”.

The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 1st, and will be followed by a small reception.

Prof. Borucki has pre-circulated a paper. Please e-mail jcobo@history.ucsb.edu to obtain a copy.

Abstract: This presentation examines the slave voyage conducted by the ship Ascension (1795-1797) connecting Rhode Island, Mozambique, and the Río de la Plata (The River of Silver, today’s Argentina and Uruguay), as a window into the eighteenth-century slave trade to Spanish South America. In this era, the slave trade became the key to accessing Spanish American consumers and silver for foreign traders. As a result, Spanish American silver entered English, Dutch, and Portuguese commercial circuits beneficial to metropolitan merchants and public revenues. The story of the Ascension’s captives goes beyond Anglo-American conceptions of the Middle Passage born out of the triangular trade, as the yearlong ordeal of these Africans involved Indian Ocean embarkation, Atlantic crossing to Montevideo, a journey on oxen-carts throughout the Pampas and on mule-trains across the Andes into Chile, and their final reshipment in the Pacific to Lima.

About the Speaker: Alex Borucki is Associate Professor of History at UC Irvine.

Details

Date:
November 1, 2017
Time:
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Organizer

Department of History
Phone
(805) 893-4505
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Venue

HSSB 4020
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, 93106 United States
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