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Sherwin K. Bryant Colonial Latin America; comparative slavery Office: Kresge Hall 2-320
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Sherwin K. Bryant (PhD, Ohio State University, 2005) is a member of the Department of African American Studies with a courtesy joint appointment in the History Department. He specializes in colonial Latin American History with a particular emphasis upon slavery, race, and the early modern African Diaspora. His first book project, tentatively entitled "Rivers of Gold, Sweet Valleys, and Sordid Cities: Slavery and the Struggle for Autonomy and Rights in the Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1810," grows out of his doctoral dissertation and offers the first comprehensive analysis of slavery and slave life in the north Andes (Ecuador and southern Colombia). It explores the untold story of slavery and the lives of slaves by comparing three industries (gold mining, sugar production, and urban slavery) within three regions of the kingdom—Barbacoas (southern Colombia), the Chota-Mira valley just north of Quito, and the coastal port-city of Guayaquil, examining how the institution of slavery was shaped and reshaped through a series of negotiations between slaves, slave owners and the colonial state. He is the co-editor of Africans to Spanish America (Under contract with University of Illinois Press) with Ben Vinson and Rachel O'Toole. His articles on slavery and resistance have appeared in Colonial Latin American Review and The Americas. A Fulbright recipient and Ford Foundation Fellow, Bryant was recently an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library (2006-07) and the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (summer 2007). |
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