BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10844-f8bf771f5f46820ef04c902fc4fbfb29@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260410T023610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T180000 SUMMARY:The Black Experiences in the Wider Atlantic Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract: This talk explores a history of ideas and hopes about freedom in the early Spanish Atlantic through the lives and affair s of enslaved and liberated Black people who lived in a central parish o f late-sixteenth-century Sevilla. The talk traces varied conversations a nd fractured memories about paths to liberation from slavery among free\ , enslaved\, and liberated Black populations in Sevilla and the existenc e of mutual aid practices that sometimes spanned vast distances across t he Atlantic world. Assembling diverse archival materials that catalogue how hundreds of free and liberated Black men and women crossed the Atlan tic Ocean as passengers with royal licenses on ships also brings into re lief fragmentary evidence of spheres of communication between free Black residents of Sevilla with kin and associates in the Spanish Atlantic wo rld\, especially through relays of word of mouth and epistolary networks . These findings reveal that Black residents of Sevilla often had access to a world of letters and communication. Such Atlantic ties and fractur ed community memories of liberations from slavery inevitably impacted en slaved Black Sevilla-dwellers' ideas and hopes about liberty. The talk e xplores how some enslaved Black women\, who remained trapped in captivit y for most (if not all) of their lives\, sometimes also became members o f an emerging lettered Black public sphere in late sixteenth-century Sev illa and shaped the meanings of freedom and slavery through their daily practices and interactions with imperial institutions.\n\nFor more detai ls: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/bewals_imagining-freedom/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract: This talk explores a history of ideas and hopes about freedom in the early Sp anish Atlantic through the lives and affairs of enslaved and liberated B lack people who lived in a central parish of late-sixteenth-century Sevi lla. The talk traces varied conversations and fractured memories about p aths to liberation from slavery among free, enslaved, and liberated Blac k populations in Sevilla and the existence of mutual aid practices that sometimes spanned vast distances across the Atlantic world. Assembling d iverse archival materials that catalogue how hundreds of free and libera ted Black men and women crossed the Atlantic Ocean as passengers with ro yal licenses on ships also brings into relief fragmentary evidence of sp heres of communication between free Black residents of Sevilla with kin and associates in the Spanish Atlantic world, especially through relays of word of mouth and epistolary networks. These findings reveal that Bla ck residents of Sevilla often had access to a world of letters and commu nication. Such Atlantic ties and fractured community memories of liberat ions from slavery inevitably impacted enslaved Black Sevilla-dwellers' i deas and hopes about liberty. The talk explores how some enslaved Black women, who remained trapped in captivity for most (if not all) of their lives, sometimes also became members of an emerging lettered Black publi c sphere in late sixteenth-century Sevilla and shaped the meanings of fr eedom and slavery through their daily practices and interactions with im perial institutions.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event /bewals_imagining-freedom/

LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR