Chains of Captivity - Chris Baldwin Fellows Talk

Join the Simmons Center for a talk by Chris Baldwin as he explores the centrality of maritime warfare in the formations of racial slavery and the African diaspora in the early modern Atlantic world. It highlights a chapter from my book project reconstructing the forced migrations of twenty-six captives from the African coast through their circuitous voyage across the Caribbean and seizure by a Bermudian privateer. The shipmates’ protracted journey reveals how serial embarkations and captivities compounded the upheavals of the Middle Passage, forcing the enslaved to form and re-form networks of survival across ethnic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds.

Christopher Baldwin is a historian studying the intersections of war, law, and enslavement in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. His research explores trans-imperial regimes of maritime law that enforced racial slavery and policed Black and Indigenous mobilities in the early modern Caribbean

Host or Publisher The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University