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Between 1648 CE and 1666 CE, news, rumours, and theories about the messiah and the Lost Tribes of Israel were disseminated amongst diverse populations of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Employing a world history methodology, this thesis follows three sets of such narratives that were spread through the American colonies, England, the Dutch Republic, the Italian peninsula and the Ottoman Empire, connecting people separated by linguistic, religious, national, and continental divides. This dissertation starts by situating this transmission within a broader context that dates back to 1492 CE and then traces the three-stage process in which eschatological constructs originating in the Americas in the 1640s were transmitted across Europe to the Levant in the 1650s, preparing the minds of Jews and Christians for the return of these ideas from the Ottoman Empire in the 1660s. In this manner, this study seeks to make three contributions to the existing literature. It brings together often isolated historiographies, it unearths fresh archival sources, and it provides a new conceptual framework. Overall, it argues that one cannot understand the growth of apocalyptic tension that reached its peak in 1666 without examining the major historical events and processes that began in 1492 and affected Jews, Christians, and Muslims across the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds.

This research examines the career of Robert Searle, an English privateer, that conducted state-sponsored attacks against the Spanish and Dutch in the Caribbean from 1655 to 1671. Set within the Buccaneering Period of the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1680), Robert Searle’s personal actions contributed to the rise of the English in the Caribbean to a position of dominance over Spain, which dominated the region from 1492 until the 1670s. Searle serves as a window into the contributions of thousands of nameless men who journeyed to the Caribbean as a member of Oliver Cromwell’s Western Design Fleet. These men failed in their endeavor to take Hispaniola from the Spanish, successfully invaded Jamaica, and spent the next fifteen years securing England’s largest possession in the region, transitioning Jamaica from a military outpost to a successful plantation colony. These men, including Searle himself, have been overshadowed in the history of English Jamaica by more well-known figures such as Sir Henry Morgan, the famed “Admiral of the Buccaneers.” Searle and his compatriots pursued the objectives of the core in London throughout the contested periphery of the Caribbean region. These goals were first framed as the complete destruction of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and later as achieving trade between Jamaica and Spain’s American colonies. The examination of Robert Searle through the core-periphery relationship between the metropole and the Caribbean illustrates how the totality of his actions contributed to the rising English position in the Caribbean. Ultimately, Searle and his fellow privateers proved vital to Spain conceding to England the rights of trade and formal recognition of their colonies in the region with a series of succeeding Treaties of Madrid.

[pt] Esta tese utiliza como fio condutor a história da extração, comércio e circulação de pérolas no mundo atlântico. Interessa-se pelo trabalho e ação política de atores singulares pertencentes a diversas populações indígenas, africanas e europeias involucradas na exploração de pérolas americanas impulsionadas no sul do Caribe pela monarquia hispânica. Em particular, analisa como, em meio às transformações globais do uso da cultura material e sua indissociável relação com a história do trabalho e dos trabalhadores durante os séculos XVI e XVII, os saberes e a ação política dos povos indígenas e africanos contribuíram para moldar a exploração desta joia marinha. A tese está dividida em duas partes, com três capítulos cada uma. As partes foram denominadas como: (I) A cultura política e (II) O trabalho e os trabalhadores. A primeira parte utiliza trajetórias de mulheres indígenas como Isabel e Orocomay; funcionários ibéricos como Juan López de Archuleta; africanos e afro-portugueses como Rodrigo e Domingo, para evidenciar a ação política e as formas como esses atores e seus povos foram fundamentais para delinear a crescente geografia atlântica da extração, circulação, comércio e fluxos de trabalhadores que o negócio perlífero conectou. A segunda parte centra sua atenção no trabalho e nos trabalhadores das pescas de pérolas, primeiro na ilha de Cubagua e Rio Hacha, depois na ilha de Margarita e Cumana, analisando a coexistência de diferentes regimes laborais e sistemas de trabalho, assim como os lugares de procedência desses trabalhadores no Caribe, no Pacífico e na Costa Ocidental africana. Essa segunda parte pensa também as transformações políticas e sociais, assim como as conexões e os intercâmbios culturais entre a Península Ibérica, o sul do Caribe e a Costa Ocidental africana. Neste marco transcultural e de conexões globais, este trabalho estabelece um diálogo transversal com: (i) a história global dos impérios ibéricos, (ii) a história global do trabalho, (iii) a historiografia das pescas de pérolas do Novo Mundo e, finalmente, (iv) a historiografia das populações indígenas e africanas. Desta forma, entende-se as experiências de indígenas, africanos e europeus no atlântico das pérolas como uma janela analítica para compreender as complexidades e os matizes das formas de relação intercultural que caracterizaram não somente esta região, mas também o nascente mundo moderno. Esta tese propõe uma nova interpretação do papel de indígenas e africanos durante os séculos XVI e XVII no atlântico conectado pelas pérolas, mostrando como em meio a cenários complexos marcados pela violência, esses atores com suas agendas políticas próprias e seus conhecimentos da navegação e o mar, assim como suas lutas pela liberdade, limitaram, potenciaram e transformaram o desenvolvimento das pescas de pérolas. / [en] This thesis uses the history of the extraction, trade and circulation of pearls in the Atlantic world as a guiding thread. It is interested in the work and political action of singular actors belonging to diverse indigenous, African and European populations involved in the exploitation of American pearls promoted in the southern Caribbean by the Hispanic Monarchy. In particular, it analyzes how, in the midst of global changes in the uses of material culture and its inseparable relationship with the history of labor and workers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the knowledge and political action of indigenous and African peoples contributed to shape the exploitation of this marine jewel. The thesis has been divided into two parts, with three chapters each. These parts have been named: (I) Politics and (II) Labor and workers. The first part uses the trajectories of indigenous women such as Isabel and Orocomay; Iberian officials such as Juan López de Archuleta; Africans and Afro-Portuguese such as Rodrigo and Domingo, to evidence the political action and the ways in which these actors and their peoples were instrumental in delineating the growing Atlantic geography of extraction, circulation, trade and labor flows that the pearling business connected. The second part focuses on the work and workers in the pearl fisheries, first in Cubagua Island and Río Hacha, then in Margarita Island and Cumana, analyzing the coexistence of different labor regimes and the changes in the forms of coercion, recruitment mechanisms and work systems, as well as the places of origin of these workers in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the West African Coast. This second part also considers the political and social transformations, as well as the connections and cultural exchanges between the Iberian Peninsula, the southern Caribbean and the West African coast. In this transcultural and global framework of connections, this work establishes a transversal dialogue with: (i) the global history of the Iberian empires, (ii) the global history of labor, (iii) the historiography of the pearl fisheries of the New World and, finally, (iv) the historiography of the indigenous and African populations. In this way, the experiences of Indians, Africans and Europeans in the pearl Atlantic are understood as an analytical window to understand the complexities and nuances of the forms of intercultural relations that characterized not only this region, but also the nascent modern world. This thesis proposes a new interpretation of the role of indigenous people and Africans during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the pearl-connected Atlantic, showing how in the midst of complex scenarios marked by violence these actors with their own political agendas and their knowledge of navigation and the sea, as well as their struggles for freedom, limited, enhanced and transformed the development of pearl fisheries. / [es] Esta tesis utiliza como hilo conductor la historia de la extracción, el comercio y la circulación de perlas en el mundo atlántico. Se interesa por el trabajo y la acción política de actores singulares pertenecientes a diversas poblaciones indígenas, africanas y europeas involucradas en la explotación de las perlas americanas impulsadas en el sur del Caribe por la monarquía hispánica. En particular, analiza cómo, en medio de los cambios globales de los usos de la cultura material y su indisociable relación con la historia del trabajo y los trabajadores durante los siglos XVI y XVII, los saberes y la acción política de los pueblos indígenas y africanos contribuyeron a moldear la explotación de esta joya marina. La tesis ha sido divida en dos partes, con tres capítulos cada una. Se han denominado a estas partes como: (I) La cultura política y (II) El trabajo y los trabajadores. La primera parte utiliza las trayectorias de mujeres indígenas como Isabel y Orocomay; funcionarios ibéricos como Juan López de Archuleta; africanos y afroportugueses como Rodrigo y Domingo, para evidenciar la acción política y las formas como estos actores y sus pueblos fueron fundamentales para delinear la creciente geografía atlántica de la extracción, circulación, comercio y flujos de trabajadores que el negocio perlífero conectó. La segunda parte centra su atención en el trabajo y los trabajadores de las pesquerías de perlas, primero en la isla de Cubagua y Río Hacha, después en la isla de Margarita y Cumana, analizando la coexistencia de diferentes regímenes laborales y los cambios en las formas de coerción, los mecanismos de reclutamiento y los sistemas de trabajo, así como los lugares de procedencia de estos trabajadores en el Caribe, el Pacífico y la Costa Occidental africana. Esta segunda parte piensa también las transformaciones políticas y sociales, así como las conexiones y los intercambios culturales entre la península ibérica, el sur del Caribe y la Costa Occidental africana. En este marco transcultural y global de conexiones, este trabajo establece un diálogo transversal con: (i) la historia global de los imperios ibéricos, (ii) la historia global del trabajo, (iii) la historiografía de las pesquerías de perlas del Nuevo Mundo y, finalmente, (iv) la historiografía de las poblaciones indígenas y africanas. De esta forma, se entienden las experiencias de indígenas, africanos y europeos en el Atlántico de las perlas como una ventana analítica para entender las complejidades y los matices de las formas de relación intercultural que caracterizaron no solo esta región, sino también al naciente mundo moderno. Esta tesis propone una nueva interpretación del papel de indígenas y africanos durante los siglos XVI y XVII en el Atlántico conectado por las perlas, mostrando cómo en medio de escenarios complejos marcados por la violencia, estos actores con sus agendas políticas propias y sus conocimientos para la navegación y el mar, así como sus luchas por la libertad, limitaron, potenciaron y transformaron el desarrollo de las pesquerías de perlas.