About

“Gold, Sugar, Tobacco: The Stuff of the Early Atlantic World,” a conference at CUNY’s Graduate Center, investigates the movement of goods and persons around the Atlantic in the 16^th and 17^th centuries and the resulting encounters produced by this movement. Foregrounding these key commodities, the conference aims to explore the forces driving new forms of corporatization and labor extraction, including, but not limited to, racialized life-long slavery. We also hope to foreground the interactions of various colonial powers and indigenous populations, not only in terms of transfers of territory, but also exchanges of knowledge and taste, as well as impacts on social organization. The conference is being sponsored primarily by the Graduate Center’s interdisciplinary program in Global Early Modern Studies, as part of its annual theme “Economies of Race and Labor in the Atlantic World.”

The conference features the work of ten scholars, and the day is divided into four panels. Please use the tabs above to view the schedule, paper abstracts, and contact information.

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Website Image: Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. “A general chart of the West India’s [sic]” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1675. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-f181-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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