Date: Monday, November 25th, 2024, from 12:15-1:45pm EST

Location: Zoom

Series: Patriarchal Violence 

Speaker: Julie Hardwick (University of Texas, Austin)

Respondent: Eleanor Johnson (Columbia University)

Cattin, a teenaged enslaved girl brought to France by her enslaver in 1746, experienced extraordinary levels of physical abuse during her seven month stay. This talk explores her world through a micro-microhistory that examines the intersections of Catholicism, slavery, and intimate violence in Nantes, France’s largest slave port. As Cattin pursued fugitivity, her interactions with enslavers, priests, nuns, Hôtel-Dieu bureaucrats and godparents as well as free Black and enslaved women shaped her experiences of intimate violence and communities of care in a Catholic city immersed in racial capitalism.

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