8th Summer Academy of Atlantic History

8th Summer Academy of Atlantic History

Veranstalter
Summer Academy of Atlantic History (Trevor Burnard, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation)
Ausrichter
Trevor Burnard, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation
Veranstaltungsort
Hull
PLZ
HU1 1NE
Ort
Hull
Land
United Kingdom
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
23.08.2023 -
Von
Susanne Lachenicht

Multiplicities of Freedom and Unfreedom in Atlantic Worlds
23-26 August 2023
Hosted by Trevor Burnard
Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery, Hull

8th Summer Academy of Atlantic History

Today, freedom is a much used and abused concept with many different meanings and limitations; be it in the realm of health politics and pandemics, voting rights, free speech, access to resources and consumption, environmental problems, or climate change.
With our 8th Summer Academy of Atlantic History, we want to look into what freedom/unfreedom meant for early modern Atlantic Worlds
- in terms of religious tolerance/intolerance and politics of toleration,
- in the realm of politics (e.g. nationhood, sovereignty, republicanism, independence movements, and revolutions),
- for legal and social status (e.g. personal freedom, enslavement, serfdom, indentured servitude),
- for economies, that is trade and commerce, land, or more generally, property rights, indebtedness
- for intellectual thinking, discussions and publications.
How were spaces of freedom carved in contexts of unfreedom? Who were the actors that owned or claimed freedom between the 15th and mid-19th centuries? Did claims/restrictions come with the term “freedom”? And what did freedom/unfreedom mean in specific contexts?

Programm

23 August
Arrival of participants
6pm: Keynote by Willem Klooster (Clark University)
7:30pm Reception

24 August
9am
Bengin Eser Öztürk (Bilkent University): The Ancient Seat of Liberty: Ottoman Travel Records of Samuel Howe and the Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionism as a Reaction to Western Philhellenism
Tutor: Trevor Burnard (Hull)

10:30am
Adrià Enriquez Alvaro (EUI, Florence): The Land of Gallinas and Sierra Leone. Freedom, Unfreedom and Abolitionism
Tutor: Suzanne Schwartz (Worcester)

12:30pm
Lunch

2pm
Felipe Souza (EUI, Florence): The Brazilian Raw Cotton Trade: Merchants and Mercantile Strategies During the Industrial Revolution
Tutor: Pedro Cardim (Lisbon)

3:30pm
Eva Brooks Landsberg (Yale): An Essential Ingredient in Revolution: The Politics of Molasses in the 18th-Century British Atlantic
Tutor: Willem Klooster (Clark University)

5pm
Jose Maria Alvarez Hernandez (King’s College, London): Black African Political Thought and its Impact on British and Spanish Imperial Foreign Policy (1725-1743)
Tutor: Trevor Burnard (Hull)

Free roaming

25 August

10am
Keith Richards (Tulane): “Provean de Ropa y Saquean sus Frutos": Illicit Commerce in Eastern Cuba
Tutor: Lauric Henneton (Versailles-Saint Quentin)

11:30am
Gabriëlle La Croix (Copenhagen): The Heyliger Family on the Leeward Islands and the Maintenance of the System of Slavery (1660–1830)
Tutor: Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth)

1pm
Lunch

Excursion: Hull

26 August

9am
Teresa Göltl (Heidelberg): Slavery and the Law -Trials of Enslavers in the Former French Colonies of Martinique and Guadeloupe (1828–1848)
Tutor: Sophie White (Notre Dame)

10:30am
Morgane Honoré (EHESS): Urban Confrontations in 19th Century Colonial and Slave Societies (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
Tutor: Leslie Choquette (Assumption College)

12:30pm Lunch

Departure

https://www.fruehe-neuzeit.uni-bayreuth.de/de/tagungen-workshops/Summer-Academy-of-Atlantic-History/index.html