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Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Tianna Mobley is a Ph.D. candidate in History & Early Modern Studies at Yale University and a Fellow at Humanity in Action. "Untold Histories of the Atlantic World" explores topics such as slavery, colonialism, and Indigenous rights throughout the Atlantic world encompassing Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This podcast invites academic scholars, literary scholars, and activists as guests.
Episodes
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazilian Atlantic Intellectuals
In this episode, Maria Eduarda Abreu Cavalcante joins me to discuss Afro-Brazilian intellectual history during the nineteenth century. Maria is a Ph.D. student…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldMato Grosso: Confraternities, Quilombos & Community Engagement Today
In this episode, Nina Borba joins me to discuss the history of the everyday lives of enslaved Africans in the Central West of Brazil. Nina is a Ph.D. candidate…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldAfricanfuturity & The Spectral Resonance of the Biafran Gambit
In this episode, Chichi Ayalogu joins me in discussing the history of the Biafran secessionists’ gambit to sustain the independence movement during the…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldLeprosy, Immigration, & Public Health in US Empire
In this episode, we will be discussing the history of race, migration, and public health through the lens of leprosy during the late 19th- and early…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldBlack Pericles: Haitian Worldmaking in the 19th Century
In this episode, Sébastien Byron joins me in conversation about the history of Haiti’s early diplomacy with Spanish America in the 19th-century Atlantic…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldSlavery & Piracy in the Atlantic World
In today’s episode, we will be discussing the history of slavery and piracy. Joining me is Claire Steele. She is an independent historian. Claire earned her…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldFort Mose: Black History in Spanish Florida
In this episode, Naomi Glaser joins me in a discussion about the history of Fort Mose, the site of the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in what…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldThe Untold Story of Audley Moore
In this episode, we will explore the story of an unjustly forgotten civil rights legend, Audley Moore. Joining me is Ashley Farmer. Ashley is an award-winning…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldBlack Womanhood in the Romantic Archive
In this episode, we will be discussing the history of the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of the most well-known poets…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldSocial Networks of Women of African Descent in New Spain
In this episode, we will be discussing the history of social networks of women of African Descent in New Spain. Joining me is Ursula Rall. Ursula is a PhD…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldWomen’s Domestic Devotion in the early Afro-Iberian Atlantic
In today’s episode, we will be discussing the history of women’s domestic devotion in the early Afro-Iberian Atlantic world. Joining me is Nathalie Miraval…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldBlack Activism During Brazil’s Authoritarian Period
In this episode, we discuss the history of Black activism in Brazil during the authoritarian period (1964–1986). Joining me is Marcelo Jose Domingos. Marcelo…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldPre-Contact Indigenous North America
In this episode, we discuss the pre-contact Indigenous history of North America. In this episode, we examine how this deep history relates to the contact…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldRepresenting Africans in Early Modern Dutch Prints
In this episode, Arianna Ray joins me in conversation about the history of representations of Africans in early modern prints within the Dutch Atlantic…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldCooking the War- Warfare, Diplomacy, and Spirituality in Atlantic Africa
This episode aims to examine The Akantamanso War of 1826 in Ghana in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is Ishmael Annang. He is a teacher and a…
Untold Histories of the Atlantic WorldThe Windrush Generation in Scotland
In this episode, Scotland's first Black Professor, Sir Geoff Palmer, joins me in conversation about his personal experiences as part of the Windrush generation…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Slavery and Colonialism in French Art
In this episode, we will be discussing the history of slavery and colonialism during the early modern period as evidenced through French art. This episode aims…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Indigenous, Spanish, & African Life in the Greater Antilles
In this episode, my long-time friend and colleague, Amir Blair, will interview me as I present a book review of Ida Altman’s 2021, Life and Society in the…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Ghanaian Women’s Movement
In this episode, we discuss the history of West African women’s transatlantic organizing for rights in West Africa. This episode examines West African women’s…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Mexico's Green Revolution
In this episode, Gabriel Panuco-Mercado joins me in conversation about his research on the history of Mexico’s Green Revolution. This episode examines gendered…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Urban Slavery in the Bahamas
In this episode, Sasha Wells—MA student from the University of Florida—discusses the history of Urban Slavery in The Bahamas during the Loyalist period…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Looting in Latin America
In this episode, Roger Atwood joins me in discussing the history of looting in Latin America in the context of the Atlantic World. Roger is the author of…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Los Negros Mascogos & Juneteenth
This episode examines the history of Negros Mascogos in Northern Mexico and their celebration of the emancipation of enslaved Black people. Taryn White joins…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Puerto Rican Social Movements
In this episode, Miguel Yunda joins me in conversation about the Atlantic history of Puerto Rican social movements.
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
School of Salamanca in Early Latin American Revolutionary Projects
In today’s episode, I discuss the influence of the School of Salamanca in early Latin American revolutionary projects in the context of the Spanish Atlantic…
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Atlantic History of Emotions
In this episode, I will be discussing the history of two seventeenth-century slave societies, Providence Island and Cartagena de Indias. This episode aims to…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Cacao and the Environment in Colonial Equatorial Guinea
In episode 18, I discuss the environmental history of cacao in Equatorial Guinea during the Spanish colonial period. I will be handing over the role of host to…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
The Atlantic Amazon
This episode aims to examine the history of the Amazonian region in South America as a trans-imperial and transnational space overlooked by the…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Public Memory of Slavery in Rio
In this episode, I discuss the memorialization and public history of Atlantic slavery in Brazil. This episode aims to examine the subaltern institutions…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Social and Cultural Histories in a Global Atlantic
The focus of this episode is to explore social and cultural world histories alongside the concept of a Global Atlantic History. To do so, the conversation will…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Debunking Myths: Slavery in the Cayman Islands
Today’s episode seeks to debunk myths about the history of slavery in the Cayman Islands in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, are Mikana Scott and…
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New Orleans: Slavery and the Urban Environment
This episode aims to examine the history of slavery and the urban environment in New Orleans during the 18th and 19th centuries in the context of the Atlantic…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Slavery in Danish St. Croix
In this episode, I discuss the history of the Danish slave trade and colonization. This episode aims to examine the specific significance of the I Am Queen…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Untangling the Sargasso Sea of Feminism
In this episode, I discuss the evolving canon of feminist literature in the Caribbean in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jocelyn Flores joins me in a…
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Public Healing in the African Atlantic
In this episode, I present a comparative analysis of the narrative and methodological approaches employed by two prominent historians in their study of African…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Indigenous and Afro-Colombian History
In this episode, I discuss Indigenous and African history in pre-republic Colombia and the modern implications on indigenous culture and the legacies of…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Frederick Douglass and Paul Cuffe
In this epsiode, I discuss the history of resettlement or re-colonization efforts on behalf of black and white Americans. This episode focuses on Frederick…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
President John Tyler and Slavery
In this episode, I discuss the history of slavery and memory at the Sherwood Forest Plantation with a descendant of President John Tyler.
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Anti-Colonial Caribbean Literature
In this episode, Perry Flores, a senior at Fordham University, brings his unique perspective as an anthropology major, to the study of anti-colonial literature…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Transatlantic African Heritage Tourism
This podcast episode discusses the topic of Black heritage tourism and the transnational dimensions of Black consumerism. The history of African Americans who…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Blacks and Jews in Louisiana c. 1800-1900
In this episode, I will be discussing my undergraduate thesis titled, "Passing into Whiteness: A Historical Study of Black, Jewish, and Black Jewish…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Zwarte Piet and the Vestiges of Dutch Colonialism
In this episode, I will be discussing a Dutch Christmas tradition and its association with Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete in English. This character is based on…
- Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
Escaping Slavery and Building Communities in Washington, D.C.
In this episode of Untold Histories of the Atlantic World, my colleague, Jocelyn Ortiz joins me to discuss a project called “Escaping Slavery, Building Diverse…