The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Dr. Erin Stone, Department of History and Philosophy, University of West Florida, will deliver the Sixth Annual Columbus Day Lecture. The title of her lecture, “’Just War,’ Rescate, and Caribs: Columbus and the Birth of the Indigenous Slave Trade,” will be available on AHI’s website on Columbus Day, Monday, October 14, at 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Stone earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University where she was mentored by Jane Landers, a noted scholar of the Caribbean. Dr. Stone’s first book, Captives of Conquest: Indigenous Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean was published by the University Pennsylvania Press in 2021.