2019 ANNUAL BREUGHEL COLLOQUIUM: Amsterdam-Based Slave Trade within Early Modern Atlantic Trade Networks

Monday, December 2, 2019 - 10:00am

Max Kade Center for German Culture and Media3401 Walnut Street, Room 329-A

Join us at this year's Breughel Colloquium for presentations on Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.

  • Introduction by Tom Safley (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Hans Cools (University of Pennsylvania/KU Leuven) - Francesco Feroni: The Practices of a Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Slave Merchant
  • Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) (via videoconferencing) - Public-Private Partnerships: The Perceived Coijmans Asiento Between Historiografies
  • Pablo Sierra (University of Rochester) - African Traces: The Slave Trade to Mexico through the Genoese and Dutch Asientos, 1664-1688
  • Kyle Repella (University of Pennsylvania) - Reconsidering Dutch and Indigenous Slaving Practices in the Seventeenth Century Mid-Atlantic.
  • Laura Eckstein (University of Pennsylvania) - Rev. Isaac Leeser’s Subscribers and Agents: An Atlantic Jewish World
  • Wim Klooster (Clark University) - Imperial and Inter-Imperial Aspects of the Early Dutch Slave Trade
  • Joseph Inikori (University of Rochester) - The Political Economy of Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Atlantic World
  • Concluding remarks by Tom Safley (Unversity of Pennsylvania)