Shifting the Grounds: Slaving, Agency, and Culture in the African Diaspora

Roquinaldo Ferreira, Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia and Postdoctoral Associate the Gilder Lehrman Center, uses micro-history tools to analyze how slaving and African agency played out on a local level in Angola - the largest supplier of slaves to the Atlantic during the history of the slave trade. Ferreira also uses the Angolan case to discuss current models of analysis of the African Diaspora.