麻豆AV

Arne Bialuschewski teaches Atlantic History at Trent University. He has published聽extensively on cross-cultural relations involving non-state actors such as pirates聽and slave traders in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His latest published work, an Ethnohistory issue titled聽,聽sheds new light on the role of Native American slavery in the development of colonial economies. This talk will highlight his most recent research on how the relationship between buccaneers and indigenous groups in the early French Tortuga has played a role in shaping聽the colonial world, both culturally and politically.聽