The Rutgers British Studies Center Presents
Casey Schmitt (Cornell University) in conversation with Jack Bouchard (Rutgers) and Johan Mathew (Rutgers) about her book
The Predatory Sea
Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Wednesday, October 15
4:00pm, Academic Building,
West Wing, Seminar Room 6051
A century before the height of the Atlantic slave trade, early modern racialized slavery emerged through practices of captive-taking and human trafficking in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean. The Predatory Sea offers the first full-length study of this deeply entangled history of captivity and colonialism.