New Approaches to Atlantic World Slavery
Panel and open discussion (Matthew Fox-Amato, Danielle Terrazas Williams, Scott Heerman): With a focus on the history and memory of Atlantic world slavery, this virtual roundtable explores new approaches to the archive. Panelists will talk about the research that went into their books. Dr. Danielle Terrazas Williams will discuss The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale, 2022). Dr. Scott Heerman will talk about The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country (Penn, 2018). And Dr. Matthew Fox-Amato will discuss Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (OUP, 2019).