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Michael Aidan Pope
@michaelaidan.bsky.social
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Associate Lecturer in History of Iberia and the Iberian World, c. 1500-1800, at University College London https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-michael-aidan-pope
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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · Jun 12
🚨 The Morisco diaspora and the Morisco networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean by @gerardwiegers.bsky.social and Mercedes García-Arenal is now available OPEN ACCESS !

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The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean
"The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean" published on 29 May 2025 by Brill.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30
FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

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Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London
After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...
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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Apr 27
TOMORROW! Join us in Bloomsbury or online! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Apr 25
MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic

28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians
Map of the port city of Cartagena de Indias, where Alonso de Sandoval worked. Plano de la Ciudad de Cartagena de Yndias y sus cercanías, around 1628, Archivo General de Indias. from: https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/22078
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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Apr 25
MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic

28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians
Map of the port city of Cartagena de Indias, where Alonso de Sandoval worked. Plano de la Ciudad de Cartagena de Yndias y sus cercanías, around 1628, Archivo General de Indias. from: https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/22078
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Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social · Apr 25
This coming Monday I am giving the following paper, 'Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the early modern Iberian Atlantic', at the @ihr.bsky.social's European History 1500-1800 seminar. Book in using this link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...
Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the early modern Iberian Atlantic
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Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social · Apr 1
I just wrote this small piece for the MMoR blog. Make sure to check out the rest of the posts too. Hannah, Carolin, and Becca have put together a great collection of primary source analysis there!
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 31
Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 31
Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️

www.mmor.co.uk/blog/alonso-...
Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jan 3
IAS Book Launch: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça & the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement
28 Jan 5-7pm
José Lingna Nafafé's book tells of the highly organised, international court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the 17thC
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IAS Book Launch: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement
Join us in celebrating the the launch of Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé.
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Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social · Dec 6
Thank you!
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Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social · Dec 5
Hi Francois, where is this page from? It seems very interesting.
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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · Nov 28
✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
The image is the cover of the book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic by Cambridge University Press.
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