The Early Modern Commons

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

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Images awaiting further study.....

10 May 2023

 https://museedunouveaumonde.larochelle.fr/au-dela-de-la-visite/autour-des-expositions/une/entrez-dans-lhistoire-317  https://boydellandbrewer.com/blog/medieval-history-and-literature/confronting-the-changeling-saint-bartholomews-darkest-timeline/Confronting...

(Unanswered) Anonymous petition addressed to the ‘Lord arch Bishop of London’. 4 August 1723

5 March 2023

 Part of the Enslavement: Voices from the Archives Exhibition....Anonymous petition addressed to the Bishop of London  4 August 1723  FP XVII ff. 167-168.To The Right Reverend...

Casta, Caste and Classification Event

26 February 2023

De Espanol y Negra produce Mulato  (A Spaniard and a Black produce a Mule)at the conservation studioLast November I received an email out of the blue inviting me to be a guest speaker...

Mark Twain meets a Black tour guide in Mid 19th Century Venice

18 January 2023

Mark Twain meets a Black tour guide in Mid 19th Century Venice who introduces him to the Renaissance.......While reading Paul Kaplan's Contraband guides : Race, transatlantic culture,...