Brazil | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:01:45 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Fabio Silva Magalhaes /research/tubman/profile/fabio-silva-magalhaes/ Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:33:52 +0000 /tubmandev/?post_type=profile&p=1887 A native of Bahia, Fabio Silva Magalhaes - also known as Fabio Cascadura - is a Brazilian-Canadian PhD candidate in History at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ (2022–2027). His current research examines a case involving the capture of American schooners for irregular participation in the slave trade by the U.S.S. Ganges during the Quasi-War between the United States and France (1798–1801). The Ganges Affair represents the earliest known documented case of so-called “Liberated Africans.â€

Fabio previously earned his Master’s degree at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, where he completed a biographical study of the slave trader and Luso-Brazilian military officer Caetano Maurício Machado (c. 1750–1807), focusing on his commercial activities in the Bight of Benin (Costa da Mina). His research interests lie in the economic and military history of the transatlantic slave trade, with additional engagement in the fields of anthropology and ethnology.
He is a Slavery North Graduate Fellow (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Fall 2025) and has contributed to several Digital Humanities projects, including the Harriet Tubman Virtual Museum, Freedom Narratives, Slavery and Resistance in the News, York Masters and Servants, and Equiano’s World.

In addition to his academic work, Fabio has an extensive musical background as a composer, singer, instrumentalist, and music producer. He has led the band Cascadura for over uninterrupted 20 years. The band eventually reunites in Brazil.

Keywords: Africans, Sierra Leone, Freetown, transatlantic slave trade, slavery, Atlantic Abolitionism, U.S. Navy, Quasi War, Yoruba, Ouidah, Bahia, Brazil

]]> Bruno Rafael Véras /research/tubman/profile/bruno-veras/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:36:07 +0000 /tubmandev/?p=1237 I am a digital historian and cultural producer whose work focuses on public scholarship, memory, Global Africa, historical slavery, and art education. I have been developing multimedia educational projects in the Global South, Digital Public History initiatives such as the Project Baquaqua. I am currently directing the UNESCO project Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives. I coordinated British Library Endangered Archives Projects, developed digital archives and websites (e.g. Equiano’s World), and several training workshops in Digital Humanities. My work as UNESCO consultant in Africa-Brazilian history (FUNDAJ) resulted in museum and art exhibits. I am a documentary filmmaker working on art and experimental and creative performances in Brazil, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Canada and Egypt. I have extensive experience as a lecturer in Brazil and Canada, with several teaching awards and grants for the development of educational projects, community engagement and public history activities.

 

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