Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) reçoit Linford Fisher (Brown University) pour une présentation intitulée : « Removals and Plantations: Recovering Histories of Native Enslavement in Antebellum US History », adaptée de son livre Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History (Liveright, 2026).
Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In his book, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Enslavement in US History, historian Linford Fisher demonstrates how the enslavement of Indigenous people began in the years just after 1492, ensnaring an estimated three to six million Natives throughout the Americas. Although largely erased from the public consciousness, Native enslavement continued for centuries to become a colossal phenomenon that affected nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America alone, revealing the shocking truth that American colonizers enslaved Natives in roughly the same numbers as they imported enslaved Africans. Scholarship on antebellum US history has tended to focus on two different sets of experiences for Native and Black people: the first were removed while the second were enslaved. In this chapter presentation, Linford Fisher explores the invisibilizing of Native presence on southern plantations and the way that they were wrapped into the world of southern slavery before the Civil War.
La séance se tiendra en salle de séminaire 1 du bâtiment Max Weber de l’université Paris Nanterre. Elle est ouverte à toutes et tous.
Lien d’accès à distance : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86760496677?pwd=dPoIui6lZRBOPFIPm6TUmARax380Qp.1
Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) accueille des chercheuses et chercheurs spécialistes d’histoire du XIXe siècle. Il s’intéresse en particulier à la circulation des personnes, des idées, des textes et des savoirs dans le monde anglophone et au-delà, dans une perspective d’histoire globale, transnationale ou impériale. Il est organisé en partenariat avec Université Paris Nanterre / CREA – EA 370.