Seminar Leader: 
John Marquez, UC Riverside

2025-2026 Events

 

 

 

Friday, December 12, 2025

“Navigating the Archives to Uncover the Voices and Networks of Black Mariners in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino
Seaver 1 & 2
10:00 am – 12:00 noon

RSVP by December 5 to receive pre-circulated materials.

 

 

Friday, April 24, 2026

“Gifts or Pecas: African Women and the Commercialization of the Portuguese-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 15th and 16th Centuries”

Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino
Seaver 1 & 2
10:00 am – 12:00 noon

RSVP by April 17 to receive the pre-circulated materials.

 

The History of Enslavement Seminar is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the University of California, Riverside.

Image: detail from West Indische Paskaert by Colom, Jacob Aertsz, ca. 1639. Courtesy of The Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.