Harry talks with Casey Schmitt, professor of history at Cornell University, about her new book The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean which uncovers a seventeenth-century story of human trafficking that extended far beyond the familiar contours of plantation slavery, revealing a region shaped by piracy, privateering, imperial rivalry, and opportunistic capture at sea.

Learn more about Schmitt's work on Bluesky (@csschmitt.bsky.social) and at her Cornell faculty page:

https://history.cornell.edu/casey-schmitt

A Predatory Sea (Book):

https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219550621-the-predatory-sea?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17

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