Jesse speaks with Dr. Henning Hillmann, author of The Corsairs of Saint-Malo. Dr. Hillmann has some very interesting things to say about the connections between privateering and capitalism.

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Brunias' Linen Market https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21113

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"Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn."—Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepéquez (AFEDES)

A history of the book in the Americas, across deep time, would reveal the origins of a literary tradition woven rather than written. It is in what Danielle Skeehan calls material texts that a people's history and culture is preserved, in their embroidery, their needlework, and their woven cloth. In defining textiles as a form of cultural writing, The Fabric of Empire challenges long-held ideas about authorship, textuality, and the making of books.

It is impossible to separate text from textiles in the early modern Atlantic: novels, newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets were printed on paper made from household rags. Yet the untethering of text from textile served a colonial agenda to define authorship as reflected in ink and paper and the pen as an instrument wielded by learned men and women. Skeehan explains that the colonial definition of the book, and what constituted writing and authorship, left colonial regimes blind to nonalphabetic forms of media that preserved cultural knowledge, history, and lived experience. This book shifts how we look at cultural objects such as books and fabric and provides a material and literary history of resistance among the globally dispossessed.

Each chapter examines the manufacture and global circulation of a particular type of cloth alongside the complex print networks that ensured the circulation of these textiles, promoted their production, petitioned for or served to curtail the rights of textile workers, facilitated the exchange of textiles for human lives, and were, in turn, printed and written on surfaces manufactured from broken-down linen and cotton fibers. Bringing together methods and materials traditionally belonging to literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, The Fabric of Empireprovides a new model for thinking about the different media, languages, literacies, and textualities in the early Atlantic world.

Learn all about some of the challenges that mixed people faced in early America.

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From UNC Press Website: "The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as "Mulattoes," "Mustees," and "mixed bloods"—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies. Thousands of mixed-heritage people appear in the records of English colonies, largely in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean, and this book provides a clear and compelling picture of their lives before the advent of the so-called one-drop rule. Wilkinson explores the ways mixed-heritage people viewed themselves and explains how they—along with their African and Indigenous American forebears—resisted the formation of a rigid racial order and fought for freedom in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies shaped by colonial labor and legal systems.

As contemporary U.S. society continues to grapple with institutional racism rooted in a settler colonial past, this book illuminates the earliest ideas of racial mixture in British America well before the founding of the United States."

Dr. Wilkinson Academic Bio: https://www.unlv.edu/people/ab-wilkinson

Jesse gives his take on the classic and epic tale of the conquest of Mexico feat. Hernán Cortés, Moctezuma II, et al. He asks important questions as well, like, "Do you believe in human sacrifice?"

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Primary Sources

Letters from Hernán Cortés

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2)

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2)

The Conquistadors, Edited and translated by Patricia de Fuentes

Victors and Vanquished, Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz

The Broken Spears, Miguel Leon-Portilla

Secondary Sources

Latin American Civilization edited by Benjamin Keen

The History of Latin America, Marshall Eakin

Mexico and the Spanish Conquest, Ross Hassig

De Orbe Novo, Peter Martyr

The Course of Mexican History, Meyer, Sherman, Deeds

The European Discovery of America, Samuel Elliot Morrison

The Aztecs, Michael Smith

Conquest, Hugh Thomas

History of the Conquest of Mexico, William Prescott