Research Seminar: Gifts or Peças?
![Map of the Western or Atlantic Ocean, showing the western coast of Europe and Africa, the eastern coast of North America, and the Caribbean basin. There is a border of mythological creatures.](http://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/images/resized/750x375-0-0-1-80-E_and_A_Mary_Hicks_image_resized.jpg)
- Date: Thursday 30 November 2023, 17:00 – 18:30
- Location: Online
- Type: Seminars and lectures, Seminar series
- Cost: Free
Dr Mary Hicks presented a paper entitled: 'Gifts or Peças? African Women's Commodification in the Early Atlantic'.
This seminar is part of the Empires and Aftermath series in the School of History.
About the speaker
Dr Mary Hicks is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
Image acknowledgement
Map of the Atlantic Ocean by Battista Agnese (1543-45?). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, CC-BY 4.0 license.