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SUMMARY:Guillaume Candela (Cardiff) Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstr
 ucting trajectories and experiences of racialised and enslaved individua
 ls in colonial Paraguay
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DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Lat
 in American and Caribbean Studies.\n\nWed 7 Oct 2026\, 5pm (UK time). Th
 is event will be in person\, in Samuel Alexander Building\, room A202. I
 t can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2\n\nAbstract:
  Slavery and forced labour were the principal motor of Spanish colonisat
 ion\, and frontiers like colonial Paraguay were no exception. This paper
  reconstructs the lives of racialised individuals enslaved in colonial s
 ettings such as sugar\, cotton\, and mate plantations and domestic servi
 tude. In colonial Paraguay\, Indigenous women with lighter skin were val
 ued at higher prices\; African and Afro-Paraguayans were deported from A
 frica to Paraguay and enslaved throughout the territory. My recent work 
 on cuñadazgo revises the term Cuñado\, brother-in-law\, long read as kin
 ship\, in fact named an enslaver or master. These cases unsettle the ult
 ranationalist account of Paraguayan identity as born of an Indigenous mo
 ther and a Spanish father. Cross-sourcing the National and Religious Par
 aguayan archives helped me to uncover the experiences of children of Afr
 ican–Indigenous unions. My presentation will also argue that African peo
 ple are at the origin of mestizaje in Paraguay. The talk closes with my 
 recent experience of what happens when these histories return to descend
 ant communities in Paraguay.\n\nGuillaume Candela is an Honorary Researc
 h Fellow in the School of Social & Spatial Sciences at Cardiff Universit
 y and affiliated to the Centre de Recherches Sur Les Mondes Américains (
 EHESS\, Paris). He holds a Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual In
 stitute (HAVI) Development Award for the project «  Recovering Hidden Hi
 stories: Adapting Handwritten Text Recognition for Colonial Paraguayan A
 rchives ». His research combines colonial Latin American History\, Spani
 sh palaeography with Digital Methods to study early colonial Paraguay\, 
 Indigenous\, African and Afro-Paraguayan history\, and the systems of sl
 avery and forced labour that shaped the region between the sixteenth and
  nineteenth centuries. He has taught and conducted research at universit
 ies in six countries\, and is the author of two books and of more than t
 wenty articles and book chapters about colonial Paraguay\, Indigenous an
 d Afro-Paraguayan History\, Slavery\, and Decolonizing Archives publishe
 d in Spanish\, French and English in Paraguay\, Chile\, Colombia\, Spain
 \, France\, Argentina\, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. He was previ
 ously Senior Research Associate on the Native Bound-Unbound Archive of I
 ndigenous Slavery Andrew Mellon Project (2022–2024) and CLIR Postdoctora
 l Fellow for Data Curation at the John Carter Brown Library (2019–2020).
  He holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from Sorbonne University.
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LOCATION:A202\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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