Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro

CLAIR is co-sponsoring a visit by John C. Marquez from UC Riverside to the Colloquium on History and Political Economy in the History Department. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin America, with a focus on Portuguese empire, Black brotherhoods, women's histories, and claims-making by enslaved peoples and their descendants between Angola, Portugal, and Brazil.

We will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery, law, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. For a copy of the paper, contact Juan Cobo.