{"id":3177,"date":"2025-10-26T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=3177"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:36:27","slug":"kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Murphy &#8211; Captivity&#8217;s Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kathleen (Kate) Murphy, Associate Dean for Student Success and Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University (USA), discussed her book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9781469675916\/captivitys-collections\/\">Captivity\u2019s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(University of North Carolina Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talks on Monday, 10 June 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cashews from Africa\u2019s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica\u2014in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era\u2019s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade. Plants, seeds, preserved animals and insects, and other specimens were gathered by British slave ship surgeons, mariners, and traders at slaving factories in West Africa, in ports where captive Africans disembarked, and near the British South Sea Company\u2019s trading factories in Spanish America. The specimens were displayed in British museums and herbaria, depicted in published natural histories, and discussed in the halls of scientific societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grounded in extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic,&nbsp;<em>Captivity\u2019s Collections<\/em>&nbsp;mines scientific treatises, slaving companies\u2019 records, naturalists\u2019 correspondence, and museum catalogs to recover in rich detail the scope of the slave trade\u2019s collecting operations. The book reveals the scientific and natural historical profit derived from these activities and the crucial role of specimens gathered along the routes of the slave trade on emerging ideas in natural history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen (Kate) Murphy, Associate Dean for Student Success and Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University (USA), discussed her book\u00a0Captivity\u2019s Collections: Science, Natural History, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024-06-10-Murphy.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024-06-10-Murphy_pod.jpeg","cover_image_id":"3179","duration":"58:34","filesize":"43.01M","filesize_raw":"45101350","date_recorded":"2024-06-10","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"16","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"5","itunes_episode_type":"full"},"tags":[17,18],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-3177","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","tag-books","tag-environment","series-greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2024-06-10-Murphy_pod.jpeg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/3177\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/3177\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/3177\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/3177\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections<\/a>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/id1664960759","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0TNTSCl3zRBues4Eqjkwwm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mldt6ifchQ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections\/\">Kathleen Murphy &#8211; Captivity&#8217;s Collections<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/kathleen-murphy-captivitys-collections\/embed\/#?secret=mldt6ifchQ\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Kathleen Murphy &#8211; Captivity&#8217;s Collections&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"mldt6ifchQ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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