#team500 +1125 words today. If I have another day like t his tomorrow, I can call this a completed chapter draft, and thus will have a full working draft of the whole book (minus introduction and conclusion).

#amwriting #histodons #slavery #slaveryarchive

von Mallinckrodt, R., Köstlbauer, J. & Lentz, S. (2021). Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833 #OpenAccess #OA #History #EarlyModern #German #Germany #Europe #Slavery #SlaveryArchive #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (53)

@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon you can use the #slavery and #slaveryarchive tags for this excellent book too!

Also look how much money one member of the Sandbach family was awarded at emancipation:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/8821

#histodons #slaveryarchive

Meet Samuel Shrimpton, merchant of Boston. This 1675 portrait of Shrimpton shows an enslaved African in the background, but Shrimpton was also up to his eyeballs in the trade in enslaved Indigenous people.

He bought dozens and perhaps hundreds of captive Wampanoags, Nipmucs, and Pocasetts, keeping them on his local farms and also trading an unknown number to Jamaica, and possibly also Bilbao, Spain.

https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=6070&mode=large&img_step=1&

#slaveryarchive #histodons

New chapter title! "This 'Gainful Pillage': Indigenous Enslavement and European Sovereignty"

The quote is from a 1645 letter from Emanuel Downing to John Winthrop. Downing wrote that "if upon a Just warre the Lord should deliver them [Narragansetts] into our hands, wee might easily have men woemen and children enough to exchange for the Moores." He wanted to trade enslaved Narragansett captives for enslaved Africans.

This he called "gaynefull pilladge." #histodons #slaveryarchive #amwriting

I'm hoping to finish working with this letter today, from John Richards II to John Winthrop Jr., describing Richards' April 1660 meeting with Peter Stuyvesant, in which Stuyvesant outlines his desire to send captive Esopus men to Curaçao. #histodons #slaveryarchive

Just was reading a doc that refers to "ganado cimarron" and I was briefly taken aback, because of course t he Spanish also called self-liberated enslaved people who formed outlying communities "cimarrones."

"es nombre común en las Indias de todos los animales sylvestres."

#eep #slaveryarchive #histodons

@earlymodernmaritimestudies

Dear #Mariners and followers of our group:

This is just a quick note to let you know that our treasured #EarlyModernMaritimeStudies group now has over 190 members! Can you spread the word about the group to colleagues and friends who work on the #Oceans, on #CoastalAreas, #PortCities, on the #SlaveryArchive and so many related topics, so we might hit 200 followers by the end of the week? Thanks! This is pretty exciting 😊!

Unfortunately I don't know how things turned out for Don Luis, or what happened to him. Only one document in this entire 1600 page legajo addresse Don Luis and his motivations at all!

What did happen is that in 1639 Don Juan Orpín captured several Piritus, enslaved them, and sent them to fish for pearls on Cubagua. #slaveryarchive #historyofslavery #histodons
/fin

RT @araujohistorian@twitter.com

Academic historians, help me spread the word! 👇 #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/araujohistorian/status/1657204293051752448

"What if we pursued and imagined thriving, not just preserving life?"

A wonderful new short piece from Elise Mitchell in the newest issue of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. #histodons #twitterstorians #slaveryarchive

https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article/53/1/82/195537/On-Slavery-Medicine-Speculation-and-the-Archive

The last enslaved Indigenous woman deposited on the afternoon of April 21, 1643 was described only as "una yndia enferma con dos crias." [a sick Indian woman with two small children]

Imagine how frightened that woman was, for herself, for her two children.

#histodons #slaveryarchive

Even the secular clergy were in on this: Andrés Pajares Gallando, curate, vicar, and chaplain, received "as a page" "a young orphaned [Indian] boy."

#histodons #slaveryarchive

One of these guys "selected an Indian woman who was alone without a father or mother" and as compensation "he offered to clothe his cousin, who is a soldier in this conquest [of Cumaná] and who is very poor."

Clothe a soldier in exchange for an enslaved Indigenous woman.

So many yikes.
#histodons #slaveryarchive

I'm continuing to work with these dox of Indigenous people held "en depósito" in 1643 and I've realized that the the sale of these people is actually a fundraiser.

Spanish officials were hoping to build a fleet of small ships to protect the Cumaná coast and to support wounded soldiers with the proceeds from slave sales.

Studying slavery is always upsetting, but this is really, really disturbing.

#histodons #slaveryarchive

@earlymodernmaritimestudies

If you follow this group and know one other person who's working on maritime topics, please encourage them to follow us, also! Perhaps it will be a colleague who is interested in #EarlyModern #Navigation as the primary mode of transportation during periods of #ImperialExpansion and #Colonization, perhaps someone who works on #OceanStudies, on the #AtlanticWorld or on #TranspacificStudies, on early modern #TravelLiterature, on the #MiddlePassage and the many topics associated with the #SlaveryArchive, on #Pirates, on #MediterraneanStudies, in #CoastalStudies or on #PortCities. #CulturalStudies folks and #Histodons all welcome. Any work on early modern #BlueHumanities themes would be more than fitting. And while I'm at it, please share something about your own work on the group page! We're still getting to know one another. With thanks to the most avid supporters of the group. 😊

To all my #Colonial, #LatinAmericanist and #EarlyModernist #IberianStudies colleagues:

I’d like to call your attention to a group that may be of your interest. I created the @earlymodernmaritimestudies a few months ago with those of you whose work touches on the #Sea, on #PortCities, #CoastalAreas, #SlaveryArchive and related topics, in mind. our definition of "Early Modern" is expansive. If this group fits with your research program, please check us out and follow!

#LatinAmericanStudies #EarlyModernSpain

Representing Slavery in Museums: The French World. A roundtable discussion. Join us on January 17, at the University of Texas at Austin! Details on how to attend below. #slaveryarchive

@earlymodernmaritimestudies

“Shipwreck Becomes Focus of Slavery Debate”
The Guardian
Sunday 8 January 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/08/a-search-for-ourselves-shipwreck-becomes-focus-of-slavery-debate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#EarlyModernMaritimeStudies #SlaveryArchive #Histodons #BlueHumanities