Gabriel de Avilez Rocha - Margins of liberation on the Tejo: Positioning mariners of color in sixteenth-century Lisbon

Gabriel de Avilez Rocha is the Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of Early Modern Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. His work centres on the social, environmental, and maritime history of colonialism and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world. An author of several articles and essays, his current book project,The Atlantic acceleration in the long fifteenth century: Making empire from the global commons, examines how popular struggles over shared ecologies shaped empire and insurgency in the early Atlantic.  

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