Chloe Ireton (UCL): Tracing a History of Black Thought in 16th-century Sevilla.
| Dates: | 3 May 2023 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Chloe Ireton |
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Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective (R3).
Room: Samuel Alexander A214. This event can be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166
Abstract: This talk emerges from work for my current book project, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic. The project traces how enslaved and free Black Africans reckoned with the brutal violence of the Atlantic world that they were forced to inhabit, and the different ways that they engaged with and shaped the intellectual life of colonial societies. This book explores how free and enslaved Black Africans conceptualized two strands of political thought – freedom and slavery – in the early Spanish Atlantic, and maps how they sought to place limits on the legal and theological justifications for their enslavement, while broadening the meanings and privileges of freedom. Centering Black thought, the project traces Black people's lives and ideas through fragmentary pieces of archival evidence in and across diverse places and institutions of colonial governance in the Spanish empire.
Speaker
Chloe Ireton
Role: Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800
Organisation: UCL
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