Early Modern Global Caribbean Virtual Conference: Session 4- Logics of Profit

The Caribbean played a central role in the global transformations that began in the fifteenth century. This conference explores the regional, Atlantic, and World approaches to the Caribbean, and what they each mean for thinking about the transformations within and beyond the Caribbean between ca. 1500 and 1800.

Presentations in this session:
Pablo Gomez, University of Wisconsin
"Early Modern Caribbean Slavery and the Imagination of Universal Quantifiable Bodies and Diseases"

Pernille Roege, University of Pittsburgh
"Foreigners and Foreign Capital in the Danish West Indies, ca. 1750-1800"

Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon
"Marronage and Informal Economies in the French Caribbean"

Closing Discussion