Event Description
Join us to discuss Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico (SUNY Press, 2024) edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel.
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. This groundbreaking volume addresses the enslavement and experiences of Black Africans in Spain and the Spanish Caribbean, particularly La Española (or Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, two of the earliest colonies. Spanning nearly four hundred years and rooted in extensive archival research, Transatlantic Bondage sheds light on a number of relatively underexamined topics in these locales, including the development and application of slavery laws, disobedience and its consequences, migration, gender, family, lifestyle, and community building among the free Black population and white allies. In bringing together new and recent work by leading scholars, including two essays translated into English here for the first time, the book is also a call for further study of slavery in the Spanish Caribbean and its impact on the region.
Lissette Acosta Corniel is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York.
The #Slaveryarchive Book Club is convened by Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University) and Alex Gil (Yale University). Check the full Fall 2025 program of the #Slaveryarchive Book Club
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