Biography
I am an early modernist broadly interested in the social and cultural histories of the early American Southeast and the Spanish circum-Caribbean. My prospective dissertation intends to analyze configurations of race and slavery in Spanish Florida (La Florida) from the mid-16th to the onset of the 18th century. In doing so, I intend to address how factors such as Florida’s status as a nascent/fringe colonial outpost, indigenous regimes of bondage, and the presence of rival European empires in the
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