FRIDAY, APRIL 24 | 3:30 PM | DOHENEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 240

Dr. Candido's Talk is based on her forthcoming book, Beyond Queens and Captives: Women in Angola, 1500-1800s, under contract with Cambridge University Press. She will problematize the invisibility of women in African History, especially in the pre-1850 period, covering a long period marked by change, including contact with Europeans, Portuguese conquest, expansion of the Atlantic slave trade, centralization of local states, growth of local forms of slavery, and transition to trade in natural resources. The lecture will conclude with the so-called "scramble for Africa" in the 1880s, when European powers divided the African territories into colonies. In this study, African women are the main historical healers. They played crucial, productive, and reproductive roles in West Central African societies. Some of their life stories will be examined to explore how internal and external factors led to profound transformations in West Central African societies.

Dr. Mariana P. Candido is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History and the Director of the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. Dr. Candido is a specialist in West Central African History during the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Made possible by the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund and the USC Dornslife Van Hunnick History Department