Virtual Lecture: Spaces of Enslavement and Resistance in Dutch New York
Join the PHM and Dr. Andrea Mosterman in exploring the history of slavery and resistance in Dutch New York. Through examination of homes, churches, and public spaces, she shows how Dutch American enslavers increasingly used their dominance over these spaces to control the people they enslaved, while enslaved people resisted such control by escaping or modifying these spaces and expanding their mobility and activities within them.
Andrea Mosterman is associate professor in Atlantic History and Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans. She researches slavery and the slave trade in the Dutch Atlantic world. Her book “Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York” has won the 2020 Hendricks Award for best book-length manuscript relating to New Netherland and the Dutch colonial experience. She is currently researching the 1663-1664 voyage of the Dutch slaver Gideon.