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Congratulations to former fellow Pablo M. Sierra Silva for the publication of his book, Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531-1706 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico is a social and cultural history of Spaniards' imposition of slavery on...
Congratulations to former fellow Christian J. Koot (Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow, 2011-12) on the publication of his book A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake (New York University Press, December 2017). The map in question, Virginia and Maryland as it is...
This image is a plate from “Paysage d’une partie de l’Ile de S. Christofle, avec un Crayon du Chasteau de Mr. le General” from Charles de Rochefort’s Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique (Rotterdam: 1681). John Carter Brown purchased the book in 1854 from...
From his earliest purchases, John Carter Brown incorporated materials on slavery and the slave trade into his Americana library. The JCB's collection hosts many rare materials that speak to the history and legacy of slavery. Researchers seeking records of the slave trade often consult our...
John F. López, Assistant Professor of Art History at UC Davis, spent his eight-month NEH fellowship at the JCB researching and writing The Aquatic Metropolis. This project is a comparative study of Aztec and Spanish flood control practices on Mexico City’s urban form that examines...
The JCB community mourns the loss of one our most treasured friends and benefactors. José “Pepe” Amor y Vásquez was professor emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Brown University and one of the founders of Brown’s Center for Latin American Studies. A preeminent scholar in the...