[Poscgrad] Social Sciences Lab Talk on Nov 17, 2:00-3:30pm: Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE)

[Social Sciences Laboratory]

Dear Social Science Community,

This is a friendly reminder for our upcoming SSL talk by Dr. Cassia Roth
(SEHE), “*The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved Wet Nurses in
Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,*” on *Tuesday, November 17*,
from *2:00 to 3:30 pm* in *INTS 1113* and on Zoom
<https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92196753205?pwd=auP54FYOPA67dst9GhD0oSLBMo0csy.1>.
Full details are in the original email below.

If you plan to join us, please register here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwdKnJ28itvD0wtCiHMjnVSZ6z3YBpW2hxXkVFxamjenld-g/viewform?usp=header>
by the morning of Friday, November 6, so we can finalize the headcount.
Coffee and snacks will be provided!

We hope to see you there!

Social Sciences Lab

[image: SSL Talk (Nov 17).png]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM Social Sciences Laboratory <ssl at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Social Science Community,
>
> We’re excited to invite you to our next SSL talk! Please join us on *Tuesday,
> November 17*, for a presentation by Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE), who will
> present her research titled *“The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved
> Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”* Coffee and
> snacks will be provided, and we hope you can join us for an engaging
> discussion and a chance to connect with colleagues!
>
> *🗓️ Date and Time: *Tuesday, November 17, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
> *📍 Location:* INTS 1113 & Zoom
> <https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92196753205?pwd=auP54FYOPA67dst9GhD0oSLBMo0csy.1>
> (Meeting ID: 921 9675 3205)
> *🎤 Speaker: *Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE)
> *📝 Registration:* Please register here
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwdKnJ28itvD0wtCiHMjnVSZ6z3YBpW2hxXkVFxamjenld-g/viewform?usp=header>
> by the morning of Thursday, November 6, so we can finalize the headcount.
>
> [image: SSL Talk (Nov 17).png]
>
> *Title: *The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved Wet Nurses in
> Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> *Abstract: *Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other
> slave-owning society in the Americas (over 5 million), and it was the last
> country in the western hemisphere to abolish the institution (in 1888).
> Whereas many enslaved persons toiled on plantations and in mines, urban
> slavery was also prominent, with enslaved men carrying coffee through the
> streets and enslaved women washing clothes. One gendered aspect of urban
> slavery in 19th-century Brazil included enslavers renting out enslaved
> women as wet nurses to breastfeed the children of non-slave families. This
> presentation examines the reproductive and productive labor trends of a
> unique dataset of wet-nursing advertisements (n≈16,000) for 19th-century
> Rio de Janeiro that I extracted from newspapers as part of a
> book-in-progress about the impact of enslaved women’s reproductive
> practices on the abolition of slavery in 19th-century Brazil. After
> presenting trends in the data, I consider the ethical dilemmas of the
> practice of enslaved wet nursing, which often resulted in the violent
> separation of mother and child.
>
> We hope to see you there!
>
> Social Sciences Lab
>
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