Participant Info

First Name
Carolyn
Last Name
Arena
Affiliation
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Website URL
carolynarena.com
Keywords
Atlantic World, Slavery, Trade, Caribbean, Colonialism, Indigenous, 16th-century, 17th-century, 18th-century
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About Me

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Graduate of University of Wisconsin (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)

Recent Publications

“Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Indian Slavery and the Anglo-Dutch Wars.” The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth-Century. Edited by L.H. Roper. University of South Carolina Press, 2018.

“Indian Slaves from Guiana in Seventeenth-Century Barbados.” Ethnohistory 64, no 1 (Jan. 2017).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Barbados, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, CuraƧao, Lesser Antilles
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, Caribbean, England, France, Latin America, Netherlands, United States
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century
Expertise by Topic
American Founding Era, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Economic History, Race, Slavery