Project description
Redefining early modern slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic
Understanding Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery involves challenging the binary distinction between ‘captivity’ and ‘slavery’. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the IBERLAW project aims to redefine early modern slavery by integrating Mediterranean and Atlantic systems. It will examine Iberian imperial contexts, particularly Lisbon, Seville, the Canary Islands and Cartagena, to identify legal, social and institutional continuities. It will map transregional flows, compare legal frameworks and explore concepts of freedom, emphasising gendered experiences. The project will combine legal and global history with archival research and commit to open science through digital data sharing. It will create a digital platform to support future education and research while promoting knowledge exchange through training programmes.
Objective
The IBERLAW project seeks to redefine early modern slavery by integrating Mediterranean and Atlantic systems into a unified, transregional framework. Challenging conventional binaries between “captivity” and “slavery,” it focuses on Iberian imperial contexts—particularly Lisbon, Seville, the Canary Islands, and Cartagena—to trace legal, social, and institutional continuities. Its four objectives include mapping transregional flows, comparing legal frameworks, modeling “transregional slavery,” and reflecting on freedom/unfreedom concepts.
Methodologically, IBERLAW blends legal history, global history, gender analysis, and social-medical studies. It employs both micro- and macro-level approaches, utilizing archival sources such as judicial records, hospital logs, and port registers. The project also emphasizes gendered experiences of slavery and adheres to open science through digital dissemination of research data.
Innovations include reconceiving slavery as a legal and institutional continuum, highlighting hybrid regimes and normative transfers, and employing a multi-scalar, interdisciplinary model. The project will create a digital platform and database to support future research and education.
Globally, IBERLAW advances interconnected historiographies and contributes to scholarly, educational, and public discourse. Its international training plan, hosted at Roma Tre, Harvard, and the Max Planck Institute, promotes a dynamic exchange of knowledge, positioning the researcher as a leader in global slavery studies.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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