The Canary Islands as Crossroads of the Atlantic World: Transimperial Networks and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Early Modern Period

AHA Session 95
Friday, January 9, 2026: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Salon 3 (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Oren Okhovat, Yale University
Papers:
“Se Conciertan con Sus Señores”: Rescate and Ransom in the 16th-Century Canary Islands
Imen Boussayoud, Brown University
Island Baptisms: The Canary Islands and the Earliest Archives of Race in the Spanish Atlantic
Ben Groth, Tulane University
“Por Vía de Canaria”: The Canary Islands as a Nexus for Slaving Voyages to Spanish America in the 16th Century
Marc V. Eagle, Western Kentucky University

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