Mariana P. Candido to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025
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Adebayo Ajadi
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Mariana P. Candido to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025
Mariana P. Candido is an award-winning historian and Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History at Emory University. Mariana P. Candido is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History, at the Departament of History, Emory University. She is the author of Wealth, Land and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 ASA Book Best Book Prize in African Studies. She is also the author of An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2013), a social history of Benguela between 1600 and 1850; and Fronteras de esclavización: esclavitud, comercio e identidade en Benguela, 1780-1850 (2011), which was translated into Portuguese and published in Angola in 2018. Besides these three monographs, Candido has co-edited African Women in the Atlantic World. Property, Vulnerability and Mobility, 1680-1880, with Adam Jones (James Currey, 2019); Laços Atlânticos: África e africanos durante a era do comércio transatlântico de escravos, with Carlos Liberato, Paul Lovejoy and Renée Soulodre-La France, Luanda, Angola: Museu Nacional da Escravatura/ Ministério da Cultura; and Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul Lovejoy (African World Press, 2011). Candido is one of the editors of African Economic History and the Encyclopedia of Slavery, Slave Trade, and the Diaspora in African History. Her work has been supportd by several fellowships. She was the Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History, at the American Academy in Berlin, Fall 2023 and a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, in Spring 2024.
Please join us for a conversation with Africanist historian Toby Green, who will be in dialogue with six historians of global Africa and the African diaspora: Danielle Terrazas Williams, Hassoum Ceesay, Mariana P. Candido, José Lingna Nafafé, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, and Ana Lucia Araujo, who draw in his recent book The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th-Century West African Port (Allen Lane and University of Chicago Press, 2025) to discuss the connections of West Africa with Europe, the Americas, and Asia during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Using Green’s work as a framework, the panel will examine the role of West African religions and Catholicism in these exchanges and their importance in understanding this long and painful history. More than anything else, the speakers will consider the great variety of oral, material, and written archival sources, to address the central role of women in West African and Atlantic economies, as traders, healers, wives, mothers, and enslaved workers.
Please join us for a conversation with Africanist historian Toby Green, who will be in dialogue with six historians of global Africa and the African diaspora: Danielle Terrazas Williams, Hassoum Ceesay, Mariana P. Candido, José Lingna Nafafé, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, and Ana Lucia Araujo, who draw in his recent book The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th-Century West African Port (Allen Lane and University of Chicago Press, 2025) to discuss the connections of West Africa with Europe, the Americas, and Asia during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Using Green’s work as a framework, the panel will examine the role of West African religions and Catholicism in these exchanges and their importance in understanding this long and painful history. More than anything else, the speakers will consider the great variety of oral, material, and written archival sources, to address the central role of women in West African and Atlantic economies, as traders, healers, wives, mothers, and enslaved workers.
Sunday, October 5, 2025
11 AM Austin
12 PM Atlanta
4 PM Gambia
5 PM Nigeria
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