#  The Atlantic World in Motion 

 



**2004 Special Seminar**

**Held in conjunction with the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge**

**Monday, March 15**

**SESSION 1**

**The Free Labor Force**  
**Chair**: **Gareth Stedman Jones**, *University of Cambridge*

**Emma Christopher**, *University College London*  
[“As Black as a Tar: Seamen of African Origin and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”](/Christopher%20-%20WP%2004CR001 "As Black as a Tar: Seamen of African Origin and the Transatlantic Slave Trade")

**Thomas P. Chadwick**, *National University of Ireland, Galway*  
[“Canvassing the Colonies: Comparative Representations of the Recruitment and Mobilisation of Trans-Atlantic Emigrants in Britain, 1580-1620 and 1660-1710”](/Chadwick%20-%20WP%2004CR002 "Canvassing for the Colonies: Comparative Representations of the Recruitment and Mobilisation of Trans-Atlantic Emigrants in Britain, 1580-1620 and 1660-1710")

**SESSION 2**

**The Dutch Atlantic**  
**Chair**: **Pieter Emmer**, *Universiteit Leiden*

**Victor Enthoven**, *Royal Netherlands Naval College*  
[“A Dutch Crossing: Migration between the Netherlands, Africa, and the Americas, 1600-1800”](/Enthoven%20-%20WP%2004CR003 "A Dutch Crossing: Migration between the Netherlands, Africa, and the Americas, 1600-1800")

**Linda M. Rupert**, *Duke University*  
[“‘Sailing Suspicious Routes’: Atlantic Diasporas and the Transgression of Boundaries in Inter-Imperial Trade between Curaçao and Venezuela”](/Rupert%20-%20WP%2004CR004 ""Sailing Suspicious Routes": Atlantic Diasporas and the Transgression of Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Contraband Trade")

**Tuesday, March 16**

**SESSION 3**

**Imperial Pressures**  
**Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**Stephen Feeley**, *College of William and Mary*  
[“Roads Between: Shaping Tuscarora Identities and the Backcountry in the Eighteenth Century”](/Feeley%20-%20WP%2004CR005 "Shaping Tuscarora Identities and the Backcountry in the Eighteenth Century")

**David Watson**, *University of Dundee*  
“Cultures of Conflict? British Soldiers on the Colonial Frontier in the Period after the Seven Years War”

**SESSION 4**

**Europeans Abroad**  
**Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*, and **William O'Reilly**, *National University of Ireland, Galway* and *CRASSH*

**François Furstenberg**, *University of Montréal*  
“Francophone Philadelphia and Political Networks in the Early AmericanRepublic, c. 1790s”

**Claire Healy**, *National University of Ireland, Galway*  
“‘English faces at the Port’: Atlantic Networks in Buenos Aires, 1776-1825”

**Wednesday, March 17**

**SESSION 5**

**The Material World of the Caribbean**  
**Chair**: **Rebecca Earle**, *University of Warwick*

**Rosalie Smith McCrea**, *University of Toronto*  
[“Caribbeana's Hybrid Muse: Creole Visual and Material Cultures in the Making, 1660-1840”](/SmithMcCrea-wp04CR009 "Caribbeana’s Hybrid Muse: Creole Visual and Material Cultures in the Making, 1660-1840")

**Dan Hicks**, *University of Bristol*  
“Atlantic Matters: Mobility, Interaction, and ‘Material History’ in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean”

**SESSION 6**

**Citizenship, Foreignness, and Naturalization**  
**Chair**: **Emma Rothschild**, *University of Cambridge*, and **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**Jordana Dym**, *Skidmore College*  
[“Citizen of Which Republic: Foreigners and the Construction of Citizenship in Central America, ca. 1808-1845”](/Dym%20-%20WP%2004CR011 "Citizen of Which Republic: Foreigners and the Construction of Citizenship in Revolutionary Central America, ca. 1808-1845")

**Douglas Bradburn**, *University of Chicago*  
“Subjects and Citizens, Patriots and Pirates: Expatriation, Naturalization, and the Problem of Allegiance in the Revolutionary Atlantic World”

**Caitlin Anderson**, *University of Cambridge*  
[“‘National Characters’: Law, Migration, and Identity in the British Legal World, 1776-1830”](/Anderson-wp04CR013 ""National Characters": Law, Migration, and Identity in the British Legal World, 1776-1830")

 **SPECIAL SESSION**

**Sir John Elliott**, *Oxford University*  
“Some Reflections on the Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624”

**Thursday, March 18**

**SESSION 7**

**Atlantic Louisiana**  
**Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**Kevin Roberts**, *New Mexico State University*  
“Congolization in Atlantic Louisiana: The Multi-Ethnic, Catholic Networks of Africans and Creoles, 1795-1825”

**Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec**, *Université Paris VII*  
“Slave Migrations, Diasporic Identities, and the Problem of Slave Control in Early American Louisiana”

**SESSION 8**

**Trans-Oceanic Delegations**  
**Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, *Harvard University*

**Mark Meuwese**, *University of Notre Dame*  
“Trans-Atlantic Mobility and Native Americans: Brazilian Tupi Indians in the Dutch Atlantic World, 1625-1657”

**Vera Candiani**, *University of California at Berkeley*  
[“Failed Migrants in the Colonies: European Military Engineers in the Desiccation of the Basin of Mexico”](/Cndiani%20-%20WP%2004CR017 "Failed Migrants in the Colonies: European Military Engineers in the Desiccation of the Basin of Mexico")

**Friday, March 19**

**SESSION 9**

**Convolutions in the Slave Trade**  
**Chair**: **Trevor Burnard**, *Brunel University*

**Jennifer L. Anderson**, *New York University*  
[“Bounding Oceans, Encompassing Forests: Mobility and Dislocation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Mahogany Trade”](/Anderson-wp04CR018 "Bounding Oceans, Encompassing Forests: Mobility and Dislocation in the Atlantic Mahogany Trade")

**Rhonda M. Gonzales**, *University of Texas at San Antonio*  
“Emergent Communities and Collective Identities: African and Indigenous Resistance in Colonial Mexico”

**SESSION 10**

**Slavery: Assimilation and Reinvention**  
**Chair**: **Trevor Burnard**, *Brunel University*

**John C. Coombs**, *Florida International University*  
[“‘The Substantiall Planters Have of Those Negro Slaves’: The Transformation of Elite Labor Forces and the Development of Slave Society in Early Colonial Virginia”](/Coombs%20-%20WP%2004CR020 "“The Substantiall Planters Have of Those Negro Slaves": The Transformation of Elite Labor Forces and the Development of Slave Society in Early Colonial Virginia")

**Roquinaldo Ferreira**, *University of California at Los Angeles*  
[“Deconstructing African Narrative: Enslavement, Resistance, Community, and Displacement in Angola”](/Ferreira%20-%20WP%2004CR021 "Deconstructing African Narrative: Enslavement, Resistance, Community, and Displacement in Angola")

**Saturday, March 20**

**SESSION 11**

**Maroons**  
**Chair**: **Anthony McFarlane**, *University of Warwick*

**Jeffrey A. Fortin**, *University of New Hampshire*  
[“‘The Most uncontrolled Freedom’: The Haitian Revolution, Jamaican Maroons, and the French Connection”](/Fortin%20-%20WP%2004CR022 ""The Most uncontrolled Freedom": The Haitian Revolution, Jamaican Maroons, and the French Connection")

**Charles Beatty Medina**, *University of Toledo*  
“Choosing between Rivals: The Spanish-African Maroon Competition for Captive Indian Labor in the Region of Esmeraldas during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century”