<div dir="ltr">Dear Social Science Community,<br><br>This is a friendly reminder for our upcoming SSL talk by Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE), “<i>The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,</i>” on <b>Tuesday, November 17</b>, from <b>2:00 to 3:30 pm</b> in <b>INTS 1113</b> and on <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92196753205?pwd=auP54FYOPA67dst9GhD0oSLBMo0csy.1" target="_blank">Zoom</a>. Full details are in the original email below.<br><br>If you plan to join us, please <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwdKnJ28itvD0wtCiHMjnVSZ6z3YBpW2hxXkVFxamjenld-g/viewform?usp=header">register here</a> by the morning of Friday, November 6, so we can finalize the headcount. Coffee and snacks will be provided!<br><br>We hope to see you there!<br><br>Social Sciences Lab<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mw19fm341" alt="SSL Talk (Nov 17).png" width="423" height="562"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM Social Sciences Laboratory <<a href="mailto:ssl@ucr.edu">ssl@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Social Science Community,<br><br>We’re excited to invite you to our next SSL talk! Please join us on <b>Tuesday, November 17</b>, for a presentation by Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE), who will present her research titled <i>“The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”</i> Coffee and snacks will be provided, and we hope you can join us for an engaging discussion and a chance to connect with colleagues!<br><br><b>🗓️ Date and Time: </b>Tuesday, November 17, 2:00 - 3:30 pm<br><b>📍 Location:</b> INTS 1113 & <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92196753205?pwd=auP54FYOPA67dst9GhD0oSLBMo0csy.1" target="_blank">Zoom</a> (Meeting ID: 921 9675 3205)<br><b>🎤 Speaker: </b>Dr. Cassia Roth (SEHE)<br><b>📝 Registration:</b> Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwdKnJ28itvD0wtCiHMjnVSZ6z3YBpW2hxXkVFxamjenld-g/viewform?usp=header" target="_blank">register here</a> by the morning of Thursday, November 6, so we can finalize the headcount.<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mvqzpicp0" alt="SSL Talk (Nov 17).png" width="355" height="472"><br><br><div><b>Title: </b>The Market for Milk: A Dataset on Enslaved Wet Nurses in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</div><div><b>Abstract: </b>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.<br><br>We hope to see you there!<br><br>Social Sciences Lab</div></div></div>
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