Freetown | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 91ŃÇÉ« Wed, 20 May 2026 19:11:04 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Leidy Marcela AlpĂ­zar AlpĂ­zar /research/tubman/profile/leidy-marcela-alpizar-alpizar/ Tue, 06 May 2025 19:45:28 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8551 Leidy Marcela AlpĂ­zar AlpĂ­zar (ABD), is a Ph.D. Candidate in African History from 91ŃÇÉ«, she is working on her current doctoral research, “The Impact of the Church Missionary Society in Yorubaland from 1841 to 1891”. Alpizar holds a master’s degree in history from Universidad de Costa Rica, and she is a tenured professor in the Humanities Department at the Caribbean Campus, Universidad de Costa Rica. She is part of the Researchers of the CĂĄtedra de Estudios de África y el Caribe, where she has worked on Afro-Caribbean migrations to Costa Rica in the nineteenth century.

Keywords: Liberated Africans, Missionaries, Women, Social Impact, Nineteenth century, Yorubaland, Freetown

]]> 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 91ŃÇÉ« (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.”

Fabio previously earned his Master’s degree at 91ŃÇÉ«, where he completed a biographical study of the slave trader and Luso-Brazilian military officer Caetano MaurĂ­cio 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, 91ŃÇÉ« 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

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