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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/narratives-of-escape/
SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Knowledge Networks and Narratives of Escape: Contesting 
 Slavery on a Caribbean Borderland
DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture\n–Elena Schneider\, Uni
 versity of California\, Berkeley\n\n\n\nThis lecture explores the phenomen
 on of maritime marronage in the Caribbean\, or enslaved fugitives who stol
 e boats and escaped slavery by sea. Across the long eighteenth century hun
 dreds of men\, women\, and children fled enslavement in the colony of one 
 imperial power by fleeing across a border to find refuge in the colony of 
 another. Many of these individuals sought their freedom through Spain’s 
 asylum policy\, which promised manumission to enslaved escapees from rival
  Protestant colonies who professed a desire to convert to Catholicism. In 
 the eighteenth century so many people fled from the sugar plantations of J
 amaica to the shores of Spanish Cuba that a sizable population of “negro
 s ingleses\,” or English-speaking blacks\, took hold in Cuba. This talk 
 considers the ways that rumor\, knowledge\, and oral communication shaped 
 this pathway of escape. It takes the testimony and actions of escapees as 
 a window on the intellectual world of the enslaved on a Caribbean borderla
 nd.\n\n[caption id="attachment_7875" align="alignleft" width="300"] Detail
  from Joseph Smith Speer's "A General Chart of the West Indies\," London\,
  1796. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.[/caption]\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\
 ;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nEle
 na Schneider is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Cal
 ifornia\, Berkeley. Her book The Occupation of Havana: War\, Trade and Sla
 very in the Atlantic World was published in 2018 by The Omohundro Institut
 e of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Caroli
 na Press. It has received several awards\, including the James A. Rawley P
 rize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association and the 
 Bryce Wood Prize from the Latin American Studies Association. Her research
  focuses on imperialism\, slavery\, race\, and revolution in Latin America
  and the Caribbean.\n\nNo registration is required. There is no charge for
  this event.\n\nQuestions?\nContact Jeanette LaVere at jlavere@humnet.ucl
 a.edu or 310-206-8552.
CATEGORIES:Lectures
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, Califo
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