Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

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• Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
• Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00
• Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

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This talk examines how the epistemic and material practices of slave trading communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century South Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds were fundamentally related to the emergence of novel ideas about quantifiable human bodies and corporeal facticity. The violent mathematics of early modern slave trading societies reified and institutionalized body quantification and population/group thinking in relation to labor, health, and disease in new ways. By examining the brutal history of corporeal quantification in slave trading societies alongside African diasporic histories of knowledge-making about bodies and medicine, this lecture underscores the fundamental continuity that exists between the enslavement of millions of Africans and the history of modern ideas about corporeality.

This talk is part of the Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine series.

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