Galeras - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:41:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Galeras - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 3D video of a slave ship https://historylab.es/3d-video-of-a-slave-ship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3d-video-of-a-slave-ship Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/video-3d-de-un-barco-esclavista/ 3D reconstruction of a slave ship

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]]> The European colonisers trafficked millions of slaves captured mainly in Africa in order to use them as labour for numerous activities. Thus, thousands and thousands of people were transported to various regions of the planet, as we know well in the case of the American continent. This 3D reconstruction details with great precision each compartment and operation of the 18th century slave ship called L’Aurore. This resource is available in the “Transatlantic Slave Trade Database”, which contains an immense amount of information on the development of slavery from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. It is a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States) and is the result of the efforts of scholars from different institutions, including historians, cartographers, and slave trade specialists and researchers.

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]]> Surveillance of sexuality. The prison for adulteresses. Calle de Atocha, 87 (Madrid) https://historylab.es/surveillance-of-sexuality-the-prison-for-adulteresses-calle-de-atocha-87-madrid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=surveillance-of-sexuality-the-prison-for-adulteresses-calle-de-atocha-87-madrid Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/vigilancia-sobre-la-sexualidad-la-carcel-de-adulteras-calle-de-atocha-87-madrid/ Video on women's prisons, halfway houses and repentant women's prisons

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]]> The video, 4.33 minutes long, is part of “Madrid, Ciudad de las Mujeres”, a cultural and touristic application where the traces of women in the city of Madrid are recovered http://madridciudaddelasmujeres.es/. As the video recounts, the galleys and hospices of Madrid have, since the beginning of modern times, been a place of reclusion and torture for a whole series of women who did not comply with the established rules. These included poor women, “rogues”, “fortune tellers”, prostitutes and adulteresses. As we entered the 18th century and under enlightened and charitable precepts, the quality and diversity of places of confinement for women diversified, with houses of seclusion and repentance where many women who practised prostitution would end up apart from society and subjected to a regime of beatitudes. Touched, veiled and living under a strict rule that they would only leave to get married or take religious vows. They were also places of confinement for a wide variety of petty crimes such as stealing clothes or vagrancy, and moral offences such as adultery or the highly punishable female adultery. A hospice was founded in the building at Calle de Atocha, 97, in Madrid, which also housed the Colegio de San Nicolás de Bari at the beginning of the 18th century, an institution for women who, “forgetful of their honour or conjugal fidelity, incurred in some crime of impurity”. The video tells the story of some of these condemned women.

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