Roquinaldo Ferreira | Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa (and Brazil) in the Era of Abolition

Isadora Moura Mota

Isadora Moura Mota is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. Mota’s book, Freedom’s Horizon: Black Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, explores the role of Afro-Brazilians in shaping the history of abolition in the Atlantic world. 

Miqueias Mugge

Miqueias Mugge is a historian of nineteenth-century Brazil and the Atlantic World. He currently serves as an academic research manager in the Brazil LAB at the Princeton Institute for International Studies.

Roquinaldo Ferreira

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History

University of Pennsylvania

Roquinaldo Ferreira is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in African, Atlantic and Brazilian History. His most recent book, Worlds of Unfreedom, recasts West Central Africa as a key battleground in the struggle to abolish the transatlantic slave trade.