Casey Schmitt

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Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/

Cover image of Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth's new book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions.
Image of proofs for an article titled "Economies of Ransom: The Many Captivities and Rescates of Francisco García, ca. 1655-1682"
Box containing water damaged documents from the 17th century.
Poorly preserved 16th-century document with holes.
Cover of the book The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt
Cover of The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt, image with ocean and coastline
Cover page for new book titled The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Cover image of John Wood Sweet's book titled The Sewing Girls' Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America.
Panel description for the AHA on Resistance and Community Formation under Slavery and Colonialism in the 17th-Century Atlantic World on Sunday, January 5th from 1:30-3:00pm in Sutton South.
Cover image of Jenny Shaw's new book titled The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Funny Spanish transcription
A section of text that refers to eating dog.
UPenn Press page for Chelsea Berry's forthcoming book, Poisoned Relations
Flyer for the 2024-25 Early Global Caribbean program at UCLA
Archival document from the 1680s
Word count screen
Dinosaur called Monday chasing little boy
Cover image of Joseph M.H. Clark's book, titled Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century.
Text box that reads: Life is like a helicopter. I don't know how to operate a helicopter.
Cover image of Ian Milligan's book titled History in the Age of Abundance? How the web is transforming historical research
Cover of Rage Against the Machine album, Evil Empire
Cover of Katherine McKittrick's book, Demonic Grounds
Cover of Mona Awad's novel titled Bunny
Image of Walter Raleigh
Poitiers, France at dusk
Street scene from Santa Marta, Colombia
Union Workers for a Clean and Just Economy