Emily Berquist Soule
Biographic Data
| ID | 266819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Berquist Soule |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily Berquist |
| FAMILY NAME | Soule |
| SIGNATURE | SOULE E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1408-1580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Sovereignty and Spain’s Slave Trading Agenda in the Gulf of Guinea Islands, 1778–1783
This article examines how the inhabitants of the West African Gulf of Guinea islands protected their sovereignty and defeated Spain’s agenda to establish the slave trade in their territories in the late-eighteenth century. Newly utilized soldiers’ depositions from the National Archive of Argentina are combined with records from Seville, Simancas, and Richmond to explore how the natives of Pagalu and Bioko defended their sovereign territory from S…
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and the important ethnic dimension of the Ibero-American independence movements, revealing the contrasting dynamics created by the Spanish imperial crisis at home and in the colonies. It bears out the experimental nature of political changes, the shared experiences and contrasts across different areas, and the connections to the revolutionary French Caribbean. The special nature of the emancipatory processes …
In the Blood of Our Brothers
Jesús Sanjurjo posits that the end of the slave trade to the Spanish empire was largely the result of “international political negotiations that excluded the Spanish authorities and ignored Spanish political actors”—an argument that echoes older, Anglocentric scholarship on the topic and fails to engage with the literature's recent focus on the role that the enslaved themselves played in pushing for abolition (p. 2). (White) Spanish anti–slave tr…
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes
This essay reviews the following works:Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito. By Sherwin K. Bryant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 240. $25.60 paperback. ISBN: 9780822358589
The Spanish slave trade during the American Revolutionary War
Placing the slave trade at the center of Spain’s involvement in America’s war for independence reveals that there were additional theaters of engagement and that these were linked not only to Spain’s resentment over British dominance in the slave trade but also to its longstanding enmity against Britain’s ally Portugal. Despite their mutual antipathy, the Spanish and the British had previously forged a mutually convenient relationship through Atl…
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Any scholar who has visited remote Andean parish churches has likely marveled at the intricate polychrome painted murals adorning their walls, porticoes, and even ceilings. As befits their sacred locations, these murals, usually painted by indigenous artists, often portray religious scenes that were meant to inspire devotion—and discourage heresy—among those who viewed them. Yet a carefully trained eye can simultaneously detect details of pre-His…
Negotiating Space in the Spanish Empire
Negotiating Space in the Spanish Empire:A review essay Emily Berquist Soule A Search for Sovereignty: Law and geography in European empires, 1400–1900. By Lauren Benton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery. By Silvia Sellers-García. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas. By Tamar Herzog. Cambridge: Harvard U…
From Africa to the Ocean Sea
Through examining the complex relationship of conquest, Catholicism, and enslavement that defined Iberian expansion into the Atlantic world, this article shows how slavery and the slave trade stood at the center of the foundation of the Spanish Empire. It traces Spanish conquest, settlement, and trade in the Canary Islands, Africa, and the Caribbean in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It demonstrates how even though by the mid-sixteenth ce…
Celia Cussen. Black Saint of the Americas
Travelers to Peru who frequent the country’s many cathedrals and religious sites are greeted by an array of laminated prayer cards, colorful rosaries, and other devotional items sold inside church shops and by sidewalk street vendors. Among the images of Saint Rose and Pope Francis, one typically finds curious depictions of a black saint dressed in the humble robes of a Dominican, holding a straw broom. By his feet, a dog, a cat, and mice drink p…
G. Antonio Espinoza. Education and the State in Modern Peru
As in most of Latin America, nation-building in early republican Peru engendered significant political, social, and cultural tensions. Recent scholarship has analyzed this process from the position of those who stood outside the center of power. Cecilia Méndez's The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850 (2005) examines the Huanta rebellion of 1825–1828 in Ayacucho, in which an alliance of local pe…
From Africa to the Ocean Sea
Through examining the complex relationship of conquest, Catholicism, and enslavement that defined Iberian expansion into the Atlantic world, this article shows how slavery and the slave trade stood at the center of the foundation of the Spanish Empire. It traces Spanish conquest, settlement, and trade in the Canary Islands, Africa, and the Caribbean in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It demonstrates how even though by the mid-sixteenth ce…
G. Antonio Espinoza. Education and the State in Modern Peru
As in most of Latin America, nation-building in early republican Peru engendered significant political, social, and cultural tensions. Recent scholarship has analyzed this process from the position of those who stood outside the center of power. Cecilia Méndez's The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850 (2005) examines the Huanta rebellion of 1825–1828 in Ayacucho, in which an alliance of local pe…
Celia Cussen. Black Saint of the Americas
Travelers to Peru who frequent the country’s many cathedrals and religious sites are greeted by an array of laminated prayer cards, colorful rosaries, and other devotional items sold inside church shops and by sidewalk street vendors. Among the images of Saint Rose and Pope Francis, one typically finds curious depictions of a black saint dressed in the humble robes of a Dominican, holding a straw broom. By his feet, a dog, a cat, and mice drink p…
Negotiating Space in the Spanish Empire
Negotiating Space in the Spanish Empire:A review essay Emily Berquist Soule A Search for Sovereignty: Law and geography in European empires, 1400–1900. By Lauren Benton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery. By Silvia Sellers-García. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas. By Tamar Herzog. Cambridge: Harvard U…
From Africa to the Ocean Sea
Through examining the complex relationship of conquest, Catholicism, and enslavement that defined Iberian expansion into the Atlantic world, this article shows how slavery and the slave trade stood at the center of the foundation of the Spanish Empire. It traces Spanish conquest, settlement, and trade in the Canary Islands, Africa, and the Caribbean in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It demonstrates how even though by the mid-sixteenth ce…
The Spanish slave trade during the American Revolutionary War
Placing the slave trade at the center of Spain’s involvement in America’s war for independence reveals that there were additional theaters of engagement and that these were linked not only to Spain’s resentment over British dominance in the slave trade but also to its longstanding enmity against Britain’s ally Portugal. Despite their mutual antipathy, the Spanish and the British had previously forged a mutually convenient relationship through Atl…
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Any scholar who has visited remote Andean parish churches has likely marveled at the intricate polychrome painted murals adorning their walls, porticoes, and even ceilings. As befits their sacred locations, these murals, usually painted by indigenous artists, often portray religious scenes that were meant to inspire devotion—and discourage heresy—among those who viewed them. Yet a carefully trained eye can simultaneously detect details of pre-His…
In the Blood of Our Brothers
Jesús Sanjurjo posits that the end of the slave trade to the Spanish empire was largely the result of “international political negotiations that excluded the Spanish authorities and ignored Spanish political actors”—an argument that echoes older, Anglocentric scholarship on the topic and fails to engage with the literature's recent focus on the role that the enslaved themselves played in pushing for abolition (p. 2). (White) Spanish anti–slave tr…
Race and Rule in the Colonial Andes
This essay reviews the following works:Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito. By Sherwin K. Bryant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 240. $25.60 paperback. ISBN: 9780822358589
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and the important ethnic dimension of the Ibero-American independence movements, revealing the contrasting dynamics created by the Spanish imperial crisis at home and in the colonies. It bears out the experimental nature of political changes, the shared experiences and contrasts across different areas, and the connections to the revolutionary French Caribbean. The special nature of the emancipatory processes …
African Sovereignty and Spain’s Slave Trading Agenda in the Gulf of Guinea Islands, 1778–1783
This article examines how the inhabitants of the West African Gulf of Guinea islands protected their sovereignty and defeated Spain’s agenda to establish the slave trade in their territories in the late-eighteenth century. Newly utilized soldiers’ depositions from the National Archive of Argentina are combined with records from Seville, Simancas, and Richmond to explore how the natives of Pagalu and Bioko defended their sovereign territory from S…
History (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works)