"Cativas and Escravos: Reflections on Captive Indian Women and Enslaved Africans in Central Brazil, 1775-1835"
A Special Lecture by Mary C. Karasch, Professor Emerita of History at Oakland University
Thursday November 15, 3:30pm, 400 Chávez Building
Prof. Karasch is the author of Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton UP, 1987), which combines exhaustive archival research with ethnohistorical perspectives and which remains the single most important study or urban slavery for any area of the Americas. She has also helped pioneer the field of historical research on the experiences of indigenous groups in Brazil. In this talk, Prof. Karasch will share findings from her current work on the use of captive Indian women, and African slaves by Portuguese-speaking settlers in a frontier region of Brazil in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The talk will also explore the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity in a frontier context.
