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SUMMARY:Guillaume Candela (University of Cardiff) "Recovering Hidden Hist
 ories: Reconstructing Trajectories and Experiences of Racialised and Ens
 laved Individuals 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 October 2026\, 5pm (UK time)
 . This event will be in person and online. You can follow it online here
 : https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2\n\nAbstract: Slavery and forced labour we
 re the principal motor of Spanish colonisation\, and frontiers like colo
 nial Paraguay were no exception. This paper reconstructs the lives of ra
 cialised individuals enslaved in colonial settings such as sugar\, cotto
 n\, and mate plantations and domestic servitude. In colonial Paraguay\, 
 Indigenous women with lighter skin were valued at higher prices\; Africa
 n and Afro-Paraguayans were deported from Africa to Paraguay and enslave
 d throughout the territory. My recent work on cuñadazgo revises the term
  Cuñado\, brother-in-law\, long read as kinship\, in fact named an ensla
 ver or master. These cases unsettle the ultranationalist account of Para
 guayan identity as born of an Indigenous mother and a Spanish father. Cr
 oss-sourcing the National and Religious Paraguayan archives helped me to
  uncover the experiences of children of African–Indigenous unions. My pr
 esentation will also argue that African people are at the origin of mest
 izaje in Paraguay. The talk closes with my recent experience of what hap
 pens when these histories return to descendant communities in Paraguay.\
 n\nGuillaume Candela is a historian who is Honorary Senior Research Fell
 ow at the School of Geography and Planning\, Cardiff University.\n
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LOCATION:A202\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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