Danielle Terrazas Williams to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025
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Adebayo Ajadi
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Danielle Terrazas Williams to join the Panel Discussion on Global Africa, Women, and Slavery, October 5, 2025
Danielle Terrazas Williams is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Leeds, specializing in colonial Latin America, particularly the social and legal histories of African-descended people in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico. Her award-winning book The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale University Press, 2022) re-evaluates gendered mobility and racial hierarchies through the experiences of free African-Descended women. Her scholarship on the Jesuits, legal culture, and early modern women has appeared in History of Religions, Journal of Women’s History, Ulúa, The Americas, and Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Most recently, she presented her research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harvard University’s Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, and the American Historical Association’s annual conference. Her next book project continues her work on the Society of Jesus by examining larger questions of early modern governance and religious acculturation in Mexico.
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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