The Berlin Conference, held from November 1884 to February 1885, resulted in the ratification of the General Act, accelerating European colonial expansion in what is known as the Scramble for Africa.

The connected histories of the slave trade and European colonial expansion meant that “from the beginning, the American Negro has existed as a colonial being.” Even after Emancipation, African ...

Melissa is particularly interested in the cross-cultural interactions that defined colonial encounters, the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and ...