Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/28/15
6:00 am - 8:00 am
Location
Changemaker Central Tempe A.S.U. Memorial Union 1st Floor
Category(ies)
Slavery & The Dark Side of the Renaissance The Multicolored Tragedy of Slavery in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas: Africans, Native Americans, and European Women Sharonah Fredrick, Assistant Director, ACMRS. Barbary Pirates and Venetian Merchants: Ethnicity, Religion and Ancestry in Mediterranean Slavery Marsha Fazio, Lecturer, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, ASU. Linguistic Solidarity Now and Then: Pidgins, Creoles, and Digital Dialects Patricia Friedrich, Associate Director and Professor of Composition/Linguistics, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, ASU. In a world where enslavement of human beings was culturally, politically and economically sanctioned, where the ruling elites of Europe and West Africa traded more than ten million of Africa’s sons and daughters for guns, rum and molasses; where Barbary pirates captured and enslaved thousands of European Christians each year; where European colonizers enslaved masses of the indigenous civilizations of the Americas; and where slave-trading was the thriving and notorious “dirty business” common to all nations and peoples, the 16th and 17th centuries reveal the worldwide drama of everyone trying to enslave the “other,” whatever that “other” happened to be. https://slaverysymposiumtempe.eventbrite.com