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Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...

How does a new digital humanities project, born from research on the voices of the enslaved in the French Atlantic world, offer insight? Set to launch in ...

This talk derives from Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy’s award-winning book, Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of Illinois ...

What was the crucial and yet overlooked role that British women played in the Atlantic slave trade? While much focus has been on English men involved in the ...

How were the lives of indigenous children who worked as domestic servants in colonial Lima shaped by their roles in their masters' households? This talk ...

The lecture will discuss the still emerging field of global legal history and provides an approach to legal history that draws on the history of knowledge and ...

Public servants are not ordinary employees. Their relationship to the modern state is special. According to prevailing opinion, this special relation ...

The town of Castro Marim in Portugal was a legal haven and later the site of internal exile for several thousand minor sinners and convicts from the Middle ...

The so-called servi poenae were slaves subjugated to their legal status as a consequence of a sentence that deprived convicts of their freedom and, at times, ...

What was the gender structure of war and violence during the Napatan and Meroitic periods? Our upcoming Lecture focuses on the gender background of war, ...