Mezinárodní konference "Slavery, Religion, and Enlightenment" ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, are presenting internationa Slavery, Religion and Enlightenment. 19 – 22 June 2019 Faculty of Law, Charles University (nám. Curieových 901/7, Praha 1) Lecture theatre 304 (3rd floor) The idea of the conference stems from our conviction that the revitalization of the instit in the Modern Era, in connection to the overseas expansion and colonization, has been of e not only for European economy, but also to its intellectual development. The aim of the co present a variety of discourses and approaches to slavery ranging from economic history, c to history of ideas or philosophy, and is not restricted to any particular place on the gl institution of slavery has been by its nature a global issue. Idea of plurality and cross- openness is inherent to our conference design with a hope to promote a kind of not only ac from collective amnesia surrounding slavery as phenomenon closely tied to the emergence of civilization in its modern shape and even its post-modern or liquid stage marked by unprec globalization. Programme Keynote speakers Speakers ****************************************************************************************** * Programme ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Day 1 Wednesday 19 June *========================================================================================= 16:00 – 17:00 Books and papers display 16:55 – 17:00 Conference opening and invitation 17:00 – 18:00 Public opening lecture: Richard Price, Maroons and their Communities in the Markéta Křížová) 18:00 – 18:30 Discussion 19:30 – 22:00 Dinner *========================================================================================= * Day 2 Thursday 20 June *========================================================================================= 9:00 – 10:00 Sally Price, Drawing on Slavery: Maroon Art and Contested Stories of its Orig Livesey) 10:00 – 10:30 Discussion 10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break 10:50 – 11:20 Stephanie M. Volder, “What will be our freedom?”: Gothic insurrection and th history in Hamel, the Obeah man (Chair: Sally Price) 11:20 – 11:30 Discussion 11:30 – 12:00 František Kalenda, Religious defense of slavery in imperial Brazil (1822 - 1 Richard Price) 12:00 – 12:10 Discussion 12:10 – 12:40 Lenka Philippová, Legacies of the enlightenment and black religions: slavery visions of future in the segregation era (Chair: Richard Stone) 12:40 – 12:50 Discussion 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:20 Public lecture: Markéta Křížová , Reflections and impacts of (American) slav and Eastern Europe, 18th-19th century (Chair: Madge Dresser) 15:20 – 15:40 Discussion 15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 18:00 Guided tour: Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Culture *========================================================================================= * Day 3 Friday 21 June *========================================================================================= 9:30 – 10:20 Jose Nafafe, Atlantic Slavery a Crime Against Natural, Human, Divine, and Civ Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça’s Court Case, Vatican 1684-1686 (Chair: František Kalend 10:20 – 10:40 Discussion 10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:50 Andrea Livesey (Liverpool), Richard Stone (Bristol): Slavery and Universitie Liverpool and Beyond (Chair: Stephanie Volder) 11:50 – 12:10 Discussion 12:10 – 12:50 Tomáš Kunca: Very British images of the 18th century slavery vindication: Th David Hume and James Boswell (Chair: Madge Dresser) 12:50 – 13:00 Discussion 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:30 Public closing lecture: Madge Dresser, Remembering Atlantic slavery in the p (Chair: Markéta Křížová) 15:30 – 16:00 Discussion *========================================================================================= * Day 4 Saturday 22 June *========================================================================================= 10:00 – 11:00 Research and academic links round table 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break 11:20 – 12:20 Research and academic links round table 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 17:00 Charles University and Prague History Tour 19:00 – 22:30 National Theatre Prague: Night in Opera ****************************************************************************************** * Keynote speakers ****************************************************************************************** Madge Dresser (University of Bristol) Remembering Atlantic slavery in the public arena This presentation considers the extent to which Atlantic slavery in Britain has been artic public arena, and the various forms it has taken. Be it public monuments, the naming of bu shaping of a city’s tourist profile or the school curricula, the way slavery is remembered national and municipal level tells us much about underlying social divisions, particularly class and citizenship. Recent controversies which have arisen over this issue need to be c their particular locale as the specific political culture informing such controversies var place. The presentation also reconsiders the relationship between such Enlightenment values as ra empirical research and objectivity, which purport to inform the academic investigation of and the range of motivations informing the different and often conflicting ways slavery an have been popularly perceived. It asks how the way slavery is remembered relate to notions empire and civic belonging. After some general reflections about the way slavery has been Britain from the 1830s, it will focus on two contemporary case studies, namely the controv public monuments and slavery in Bristol, and the tensions generated between the proposed H in London and a campaign to fund a memorial to enslaved Africans with similar status. Markéta Křížová (Faculty of Arts, Charles University) Reflections and impacts of (American) slavery in Central and Eastern Europe, 18th-19th cen While the revitalization of slavery in the Modern Era was of crucial importance for those directly involved in colonization and exploitation of American continent and in trade rela Africa, it had at the same time equally far-reaching – albeit indirect – impact also on re margin of the Atlantic system. The Czech Lands, landlocked and apparently isolated from th were going on overseas, will be used as an example to demonstrate not only the material co the slavery-based economic development, but also the impact of the very knowledge of the e institution of slavery upon the intellectual developments in the region. Richard Price (College of William and Mary) Maroons and their Communities in the Americas Today, Maroons—self-liberated slaves and their descendants—still form semi-independent com several parts of the Americas, for example, in Suriname, French Guiana, Jamaica, Belize, C Brazil. As the most isolated of Afro- Americans, they have since the 1920s been an importa scientific research, contributing to theoretical debates about slave resistance, the herit in the Americas, the process of creolization, and the nature of historical knowledge among peoples. This lecture surveys their history and discusses their present situation, includi protect their territories and sovereignty. Sally Price (College of William and Mary) Drawing on slavery: Maroon art and contested stories of its origin The Maroons, descendants of Africans who liberated themselves from plantation slavery in t Suriname, are famous throughout the world for their rich arts. The women produce stunning sinuous engravings on the fruit of the calabash tree and the men carve elegant designs on canoes and housefronts to combs and kitchen utensils. In addition, Maroon men in eastern S neighboring French Guiana have developed a vibrant, colorful art of painting, and have bee successfully for Western customers, both tourists and locals. Although we know that these produced only in the nineteenth century, long after the Maroons were living independently interior, young artists who produce acrylic paintings for sale have constructed a narrativ the arts originated during slavery, as a system communicating secret messages aimed at fac to freedom. This lecture explores the story of their narrative. ****************************************************************************************** * Speakers ****************************************************************************************** František Kalenda Religious defense of slavery in imperial Brazil (1822 - 1899) Before the so-called "Golden Law" dealt the final blow to slavery in 1888, the Brazilian E through decades of both utilitarian and moral arguments in favour or against this institut presentation aims to explore the attitudes of Brazilian groups towards slavery and especia abolitionist discourse as presented in their respective media outlets. František Kalenda, PhD candidate in anthropology, Department of General Anthropology, Facu Humanities, Charles University. In his doctoral research, he focuses on collaboration and Brazilian state and religious actors in the Imperial and early Republican period (1822-193 Tomáš Kunca Very British images of the 18th century slavery vindication: Thomas Newton, David Hume and In the 1739 presentation of design for a new, experimentally based “science of man” or “sc nature”, David Hume famously observed: “So true it is, that however other nations may riva and excel us in other agreeable arts, the improvements in reason and philosophy can only b of toleration and of liberty”. Nonetheless, this “land of liberty and toleration” cultivat operated and vindicated probably the most effective system of Atlantic slavery in the cour century. “Improvements” not only “in reason and philosophy” proved to be at least not ines of this process and set of particular examples, sketches, images of slavery vindication is this talk to initiate some challenges to our deeply inherited ideas about more or less enl of letters” and their mission as proponents of unbounded humanity. The first example, whic of Thomas Newton, a Cambridge scholar and bishop of Bristol, represents the vindication of “improvement” in the science of religion. The second explores insights provided by “philos letters” and hero of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, including some biographical n one is rather peculiar, a piece of bizarre poetry written by James Boswell, a lawyer and a famed as a biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson. The three examples illustrate the justificatio the age of reason searching for seemingly universal humanism. Andrea Livesey and Richard Stone Slavery and Universities: Bristol, Liverpool and Beyond Bristol was a key port in the early days of the Atlantic Slave Trade, but institutions aro only just started to grapple with the financial and ethical implications of this disturbin city’s wealth. Prompted by a student petition, research on the University of Bristol’s his to the Atlantic slave economy has uncovered links to slave-produced tobacco, sugar, and ch to abolitionists. This paper will explore how Bristol, and universities worldwide have ref responded to their multifarious historic links to slavery. José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol) Atlantic Slavery a Crime Against Natural, Human, Divine, and Civil Laws: Angolan Prince Lo Mendonça’s Court Case, Vatican 1684-1686 Moral and political debate on the abolition of slavery has always been understood to have by Europeans in 18th century. To the extent that Africans are recognised as playing any ro slavery, their efforts are typically imagined as confined to impulsive acts of resistance ‘shipboard’, ‘plantation and household revolts’, ‘flight’, ‘marronage’, and so on. Notwith of these studies have gone beyond the obvious economic disruptions caused by enslaved on p examine the highly-organised, international-scale legal liberation headed by Mendonça in t the 6th of March 1684. The court case presented by Mendonça on the abolition of slavery in organizations, brotherhoods of Black people, and interest groups of ‘men’, ‘women’ and ‘yo of African descent in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Africa. In addition to these groups, Men included other constituencies such as New Christians and the Native Americans. This scale initiative in the Atlantic led by Africans themselves has not before been researched since of the Lusophone Atlantic slavery in the 15th century by Europeans. Mendonça questioned th of the Atlantic slavery, using four core principles to bolster his argument: Human, Natura Civil Laws. I argue that the relationship between Africans’ abolition discourse, the Inqui Christians, Native Brazilians and their common search for liberty, and how the denial of r was implicated with the denial of enslaved Africans’ humanity, is a nexus of dialogues tha considered together in the context of the Atlantic. José Lingna Nafafé, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies and Programme D MA in Black Humanities, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Fac University of Bristol. Dr Lingna Nafafé’s academic interests embrace a number of inter-rel linked by the overarching themes of: Lusophone Atlantic African diaspora, seventeenth and century Portuguese and Brazilian history; slavery and wage-labour, 1792-1850; race, religi Luso-African migrants’ culture and integration in the Northern (England) and Southern Euro and Spain); ‘Europe in Africa’ and ‘Africa in Europe’; and the relationship between postco and the Lusophone Atlantic. Recent publications: Hawthorne, W & Nafafe, JL, 2016, ‘The his of multicultural unity along the Upper Guinea Coast and in Guinea-Bissau’. Social Dynamics 31-45, Nafafe, JL, 2016, ‘‘The Guinean Diaspora After 1998’, in Patrick Chabal and Toby Gr Guinea-Bissau, Micro-Satet to ‘Narco-Sate’.’. in: ‘The Guinean Diaspora After 1998’, in Pa Toby Green (eds.). Guinea-Bissau, Micro-Satet to ‘Narco-Sate’.., pp. 143-158, Nafafe, JL, in Africa and Africa in Europe: Rethinking Postcolonial Space, Cultural Encounters and Hyb Journal of Social Theory.’. European Journal of Social Theory, vol 16., pp. 51-68. Lenka Philippová Legacies of the Enlightenment and Black Religions: Slavery, Race and Visions of Future in Era Leaving aside the better-known legacy of the Enlightenment in the abolitionist movement, t on how was this critical discourse against slavery and racial inequality developed within after the Civil War. The aim of the paper is to present the diverse ways African Americans account for slavery and its place and meaning in history and how these informed their visi future in the era of segregation and state racism. Articulated within the frame of America theology and the ethos of progress, the responses were diverse, ranging from visions of a to historic mission of the black race and radical nationalist discourse. In relation to bl nationalism and Pan-Africanism the influence of black freemasonry will be also mentioned. Lenka Philippová, graduated from Hussite Theology and Religious Studies at the Hussite Fac Charles University. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in history at the Centre of Ibero Studies. Her dissertation project focuses on Jamaican Rastafari movement from the perspect transmission. Other research interests: intersections of religion, culture and politics, A history and religion, methods and theories in the study of religions. Seected publication: Aspects of the Rastafari Movement“ In: Vojtíšek, Zdeněk et alii: Millennialism. Expecting World in the Past and Present. Praha: Dingir. 2013. s. 61–70. Stephanie M. Volder “What will be our freedom?” : Gothic insurrection and the hauntings of history in Hamel, t “What will be our freedom?” asks the black slave protagonist Hamel in the novel Hamel, the published anonymously in London in 1827 by Hunt and Clarke. The question of freedom, espec idea of freedom as the absence of interference, is central to this early Caribbean novel. unfolding of a slave rebellion in 1822 in the northeastern Jamaican parishes of Portland, St. Mary. I argue that the novel represents a pro-planter perspective on Jamaican emancipa while at the same time both supporting and contradicting a Western Enlightenment view of h “advance in civilization” through the use of Gothic tropes. In Hamel we see a disavowal of revolution in favor of a “revolution in manners” among the enslaved West African populatio and progress should come about as a product of gradual emancipation and the development of economy in the British sugar colony. The slaves should be taught to enlarge their “limited participate in the marketplace as both laborers and consumers. However, the novel’s use of like necromancy, cannibalism and the supernatural in depictions of black rebellion provide picture of the strong resistance and the culture of the enslaved black majority. By discus in relation to the already established tradition of the British Gothic novel, I will show exploits Gothic conventions as a way of engaging with a traditional Enlightenment historio multifaceted use of Gothic images of race and slave revolt, Hamel depicts the reality of b in colonial Jamaica at this crucial moment in Britain's consolidation of its Empire. ****************************************************************************************** * Biographies ****************************************************************************************** Madge Dresser, Ph.D., F.R.H.S., R.S.A., is Honorary Professor in Historical Studies at the Bristol and also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England after r post as Associate Professor of History there. She has served as academic advisor to variou closely with Historic England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Colonial Countryside Project at the Leicester and the Legacy of British Slave Ownership Project at the University of London. A historian, she has participated in national and local debates and broadcasts on race, hidd on the memorialisation of slavery, most recently on BBC Radio4’s Archive on 4’s programme Fall’ 16 September 2017 and a TedxBristol talk on Slavery and Statues 2017 and in 2019, ‘S series for Busan MBC (South Korea). She has devised various history trails which establish history of Bristol and is a trustee of the human rights charity Journey to Justice. Her publications include Slavery Obscured: the Social History of the Slave Trade in Bristo 2007, 2016),’Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London’, History Workshop Journal (Autum Minorities and the City: Bristol 1000-2000 (with Peter Fleming), (20017), ‘Remembering Sla Abolition in Bristol’, Slavery & Abolition, (June 2009)‘The Slavery and the British Countr edited with Andrew Hann) (2013),Women and the City: Bristol 1373-2000 (2016), ‘Slavery and Country House’ in The British Country House Revisited (edited by David Cannadine and Jerem (October 2018) and a forthcoming chapter, ‘Pero’s afterlife’ in Briton’s Black Past Past ( Gretchen Gerzina) (2019). František Kalenda, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, Department of General Anthropology, Fa Humanities, Charles University. In his doctoral research, he focuses on collaboration and Brazilian state and religious actors in the Imperial and early Republican period (1822-193 Markéta Křížová, Ph.D., is Professor in Ibero-American Studies at Charles University and H for African Studies at the same faculty. She is member of the steering committee of ENIUGH Network in Universal and Global History), and of the Advisory Board of the Czech National research focuses on Early Modern intellectual history, European overseas expansion, coloni America and cultural encounters, competitions and transfers. Her publications include the monograph La ciudad ideal en el desierto: Proyectos misionale de Jesús y la Iglesia Morava en la América colonial, Prague 2004 [Ideal city in the wilder projects of the Society of Jesus and Moravian Church in colonial America], focused on the art of the „utopian“ stream of European thinking of this period, The strength and sinews o world...: African slavery, American colonies and the effort for reform of European society Modern Era, Prague 2008, which discussed the European discourse on slavery especially in c the notion of „freedom“ as it appeared throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and Reyes, misioneros: Rivalidad imperial y sincretismo colonial en la Costa de Mosquitia, siglo XIX, [Kings, entrepreneurs, missionaries: Imperial rivalry and colonial syncretism on the Mosqu century], dealing with the problem of imperial competition, cultural syncretism and identi this specific American region. Tomáš Kunca, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Charles University. He is working on a new biography of David Hume, particularly period 17 from 2017 presented series of papers at the University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh of Oxford as an initial step for a book project. Selected recent conference papers/invited ´Hume, Horse Riding, and Prosperity of Civil Society´, Hume´s Science of Human Nature: Per Interpretation, Prague, 31 August – 3 September 2016, ´Hume´s Master in Bristol (1734), Mi An Unknown Patron of Enlightenment?´, Hume Conference: Hume’s Thought and Hume’s Circle on Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh,´Hume in ´, Oxford Hume Forum, Hertford College Oxford, 26. 4. 2018, ´A Linen Draper of Bristol, Mr Literary Circle: Dr Thomas Sheridan, David Hume, Hannah More and John Cleland´, Department University of Bristol, 2. 10. 2018, ´A History of the ´Anecdote´ and Hume´s Circle in Bris ECENS, University of Edinburgh, 5. 10. 2018. Andrea Livesey, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Liverp University. The chronological scope of her research covers colonial America through to the Her work focuses on race, sexual violence, and the legacies of slavery in North America an current monograph finds links between sexual violence and the wider violence of slavery to sexual violence had become normalised as part of a wider technology of slaveholding. She p articles and book chapters like: ‘Quantitative Histories’, Chapter in D. Doddington & E. D Writing the History of Slavery, Bloomsbury “Writing History Series” [forthcoming], 'Concei Enslaved Mothers and Children Born of Rape in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana' , Slavery and (2017), and ‘Race, Slavery and the Expression of Sexual Violence in Louisa Picquet, The Oc Nineteenth Century History, 19.3 (2018) . José Lingna Nafafé, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies and Programme D MA in Black Humanities, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Fac University of Bristol. Dr Lingna Nafafé’s academic interests embrace a number of inter-rel linked by the overarching themes of: Lusophone Atlantic African diaspora, seventeenth and century Portuguese and Brazilian history; slavery and wage-labour, 1792-1850; race, religi Luso-African migrants’ culture and integration in the Northern (England) and Southern Euro and Spain); ‘Europe in Africa’ and ‘Africa in Europe’; and the relationship between postco and the Lusophone Atlantic. Recent publications: Hawthorne, W & Nafafe, JL, 2016, ‘The his of multicultural unity along the Upper Guinea Coast and in Guinea-Bissau’. Social Dynamics 31-45, Nafafe, JL, 2016, ‘‘The Guinean Diaspora After 1998’, in Patrick Chabal and Toby Gr Guinea-Bissau, Micro-Satet to ‘Narco-Sate’.’. in: ‘The Guinean Diaspora After 1998’, in Pa Toby Green (eds.). Guinea-Bissau, Micro-Satet to ‘Narco-Sate’.., pp. 143-158, Nafafe, JL, in Africa and Africa in Europe: Rethinking Postcolonial Space, Cultural Encounters and Hyb Journal of Social Theory.’. European Journal of Social Theory, vol 16., pp. 51-68. Lenka Philippová, graduated from Hussite Theology and Religious Studies at the Hussite Fac Charles University. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in history at the Centre of Ibero Studies. Her dissertation project focuses on Jamaican Rastafari movement from the perspect transmission. Other research interests: intersections of religion, culture and politics, A history and religion, methods and theories in the study of religions. Seected publication: Aspects of the Rastafari Movement“ In: Vojtíšek, Zdeněk et alii: Millennialism. Expecting World in the Past and Present. Praha: Dingir. 2013. s. 61–70. Richard Price, Ph.D., anthropologist and historian, received his Ph.D. degrees from Harvar Even though he realized fieldworks in various locations, he is best known for his research Americans in Surinam and French Guiana and on the Caribbean islands, some of which he real wife Sally, studying the dynamics of cultural development and identity formation of the ru societies and making an important contribution to the anthropological study of creolizatio syncretism. He taught (and was chair of the Department of Anthropology) at Johns Hopkins U at Sorbonne in Paris, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Florida, Un Federal da Bahia, and at the College of William and Mary (where he is currently Professor the 1990s, he has aided the Maroons in Surinam do defend their rights. In 2014, he receive Internacional Fernando Ortiz and the same year he was decorated as “Chevalier des Arts et his important contributions to anthropological research. His publications, many of them award-winning, include Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Commun Americas (edited and with an introduction by Richard Price), Garden City 1972, the first c of Maroon (runaway slave) communities throughout the Americas in comparative perspective, First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni Press, 1983), and Alabi’s World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), dedicat historical consciousness of the Maroon communities; and Travels with Tooy: History, Memory American Imagination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), … innovative approach t anthropologist and his way of translating the experience of studied peoples into the “scie and Rainforest Warriors (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), telling th Surinam Maroons who struggle to protect their territory against the encroachments of the s Several of the books were co-authored with Sally Price: Afro-American Arts of the Suriname (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), Two Evenings in Saramaka (Chicago: Unive Press, 1991), Equatoria (New York: Routledge, 1992), The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-Ameri Got Its Start (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press/ University of Chicago Press, 2003), etc. R texts have been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Saamakatongo a Sally Price, Ph.D. anthropologist and historian of art, studied at Harvard and Sorbonne, a her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, taught at Johns Hopkins, Sorbonne, Stanford Univers University, University of Florida, Universidade Federal da Bahia, College of William and M conducted fieldworks in various locations, but is best known for her study of the Afro-Ame in Surinam, French Guiana, and the Caribbean, but also for the explorations into the Weste of non-Western art. In 2000, Sally Price was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of A In 2014 she was decorated by France's Ministry of Culture as “Chevalier des Arts et des Le important contributions to anthropological research. Her texts include prize-winning Co-Wives and Calabashes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan an analysis of the ways that cultural ideas about the genders influence Saramaka women’s a activity and the complementary contributions that these artistic activities make to their Caribbean Contours (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, edited with Primitive Art in Civilized Places (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989); Maroon Art Vitality in the African Diaspora (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999, with Richard Price), Romare Caribbean Dimension (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, with Richard Pr also written on French politics and the museology questions (Paris Primitive: Jacques Chir the Quai Branly, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Sally Price’s texts have bee Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Richard Stone, Ph.D., is Teaching Fellow in History, Department of Historical Studies (His of Bristol. His specific research areas include international trade, the growth of the Eng the Americas, and Piracy. He completed his PhD on Bristol’s seventeenth century overseas t and is currently developing this into a research monograph. This research represented the to track the evolution of trade over a period of more than a century and has challenged ma perceptions regarding the city’s trade, in particular showing that trade with the American colonies developed much faster and much earlier than had previously been assumed, more tha before Bristol became officially involved in the slave trade. Selected publications: Brist of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700, (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming), ‘Bristol’s Overseas Later Fifteenth Century: The Evidence of the ‘Particular’ Customs Accounts’, in E.T. Jones (eds.) The World of the Newport Medieval Ship: Trade, Politics and Shipping in the Mid-Fif (University of Wales Press, 2018), pp. 181-204, ‘The overseas trade of Bristol before the International Journal of Maritime History, 23, 2, (2011), pp. 211-240. Selected recent con invited lectures: ‘Slavery and Bristol University’ at ‘Slavery Past and Present’, (Bristol September 2018), ‘Visibility and Invisibility of Slavery Memorialization: Bristol’s Untold ‘Slavery’s Untold Stories’, (University of Liverpool, October 2017), ‘Slavery Remembered a Obscured: The Disrupted and Disrupting Memory of Bristol’s Guilty Secret’, at ‘Disrupted L Literary and Visual Landscapes Symposium’, (University of Bristol, June, 2017). Stephanie M. Volder, Ph.D. is a fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhe Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Research areas: The Gothic, The lit slavery, the Caribbean, Jamaican slavery. Thesis: "Gothic representations of slavery and i dispute over the meaning of freedom in the early 19th century Caribbean Gothic ". Her research is an investigation of the horror stories told from and about the sugar colon Her questions are like how, and why, the Gothic as a genre and aesthetic mode was used in colonial debates on slavery and freedom in the early 19th century. She is interested in wh history and notions of freedom the Gothic texts helped to negotiate on both sides of the s both for and against immediate emancipation. How did the Gothic genre give form to slave r in the decades leading up to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833? Gothi of slave rebellion in Jamaica – in novels, travel writing, political documents, magazines, and poetry – can give us a new perspective on this important period of transition from cat a free market economy. In Jamaica a liberal notion of freedom and progress was interesting a colonial paternalist ideology as a way of modifying a liberal ideology to meet a local p create a transition from slavery to freedom that evades the horrors of a revolutionary blo