Slavery, Enlightenment, and Revolution in
Colonial Brazil and Spanish America
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus (Bronx, NY)
Friday, 5 May, 2006.
10:00-5:00pm
Keating Hall 317
10:00am: Welcome
10:15-11:30am: Session 1. Sources of Antislavery in Latin America and the Atlantic World
Stuart Schwartz , Yale University, “Questioning Slavery and Accepting Africa: Dissidence, Tolerance, and Syncretism in the Iberian Atlantic World”
Michael Zeuske , University of Cologne, “Alexander Humboldt and the Newly Found Humboldt Diaries (1804) about Slavery in Cuba”
11:45-12:30pm: Session 2. Slavery and Revolution in the Portuguese Empire
Rafael Marquese , University of São Paolo, “The Absence of Race: Slavery, Citizenship, and Pro-slavery Ideology in the Cortes of Lisbon and in the Constitutional Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (1821-1824)”
12:30-1:45 pm: Lunch
1:45-3:00pm: Session 3. Retrenchment and Resistance to Emancipation
Dale Tomich , Binghamton University, “Making Plantation Landscapes: Material Processes, Social Practices and the Cuban Sugar-Mill, 1820-1868”
Astrid Cubano-Iguina , University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, “Slavery on Hacienda La Esperanza, Manatí, Puerto Rico, on the Eve of Abolition, 1860s-1870s”
3:15-3:45pm: Roundtable Discussion
Participants
- Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, a scholar of slavery in Brazil and Latin America, author of Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society. He is currently working on popular antislavery sentiment in colonial Brazil.
- Michael Zeuske, Professor of History at the University of Cologne, Germany, historian of slavery, slave emancipation, and antislavery thought in the Caribbean and Europe. He is a major scholar of Alexander von Humboldt, especially concerning Humboldt’s views on New World slavery. Dr. Zeuske has also work on post-emancipation society in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
- Rafael Marquese, Professor of History at the University of Sao Paolo, works on the ideology of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the Deep South. He is currently working on the fate of slavery in the European and Latin American democratic revolutions of the early nineteenth century.
- Dale Tomich, Professor of Sociology and History at Binghamton University, a scholar of slavery in Brazil and the Caribbean who is currently directing an international research project on the architecture and technology of nineteenth-century plantations in Brazil, Cuba, and Mississippi.
- Astrid Cubano-Iguina, Professor of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Professor Cubano-Iguina is a historian of slavery and colonial politics in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico. Her forthcoming book is a study of gender, violence, and the law. She has also worked on the history of Hacienda Esperanza, a former plantation being developed as a museum on Puerto Rican slavery.
Sponsored by Fordham University’s Latin American and Latino Studies Institute, Department of History, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Dean of the College at Lincoln Center, and Dean of the College at Rose Hill.
For more information, contact Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University. Email: schmidtnowar@fordham.edu; tel: 212.636.7221 or 347.387.1665.
