Enslavement Between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities

Bethan R Fisk

doi:10.1080/0144039X.2023.2236433

Enslavement Between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities

Bethan R Fisk^*

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Abstract

Black Africans who were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean experienced myriad forms of coercion alongside the Middle Passage. This article centres on mobilities of Manuel Francisco Zapata, a Black man of Wolof descent, born and raised a Muslim in Meknes, Morocco. Captured and enslaved by the Spanish, he lived for several years in Seville, and was then trafficked to Cartagena de Indias and Panama City before being tried by the Inquisition for ‘Apostatic, Judaic propositions.’ His life narrative allows a glimpse of the multiplicity of captive mobilities—coerced movement through military labour, capture, imprisonment, the trans-Atlantic voyage, arrest, and exile—that enslaved Africans endured. Captivity on the move was central to the condition of enslavement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	478–495
Number of pages	18
Journal	Slavery and Abolition
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2023.2236433
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2023
Event	Captive Mobilities: Slavery, Freedom, and Knowledge Production in Latin America and Beyond - University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 15 Sept 2022 → 16 Sept 2022 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2022/september/captive-mobilities-slavery-freedom-and-knowledge-production-in-latin-america-.html

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Funding Information:
I thank the participants of the Captive Mobilities Conference held at University of Bristol in September 2022 for their generative insights about the relationship between captivity, slavery, and mobility. Thank you to the two anonymous reviewers and Laura Correa Ochoa, José Lingna Nafafé, and Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard for their insightful comments and suggestions on this article. This work was generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Black mobilities
Inquisition
judaising
Cartagena de Indias
trans-Atlantic slavery
Mediterranean world

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