An interdisciplinary approach was used in order to achieve the research objectives, bringing together sociology, social history and economic anthropology. Dr. Filioli Uranio combined these with equally interdisciplinary training. First, methodology in general was qualitative: the intention was to go beyond a vision of the market and price formation purely based on economics and typical of econometric history, turning instead to investigating the estimation process. Secondly, a case study oriented method was adopted, aiming to reconstruct the biography of slaves by providing a profile for each of them so as to be able to produce a complete database.
During the Work Package 1 period, the Dr. Filioli Uranio carried out research and selection of documents relating to the slavery in Valencia at the Reino de Valencia Archive. The researcher made his investigations at the Libraries of the University of Valencia, in particular at the Humanidades Joan Reglà library. This research period was particularly useful for making contacts within the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the University of Valencia and for integrating myself into the research group that deals with the area of Early Modern History.
In the period of Work Package 2 Dr. Filioli Uranio carefully analysed book 42 of the Secretaria de Estado of the Archivo General de Simancas. Furthermore, thanks to his secondment at the EHESS in Paris, Dr. Filioli Uranio was able to discuss Book 42 with Professor Bernard Vincent (EHESS), an expert in the history of slavery in the Iberian Peninsula. His stay at the EHESS was an opportunity to follow the seminars of the CRH (Centre de Recherches Historiques) and of the GEI (Groupe d'Études Ibériques), especially those organized by Antoine Roullet, Jean-Paul Zúñiga, Natalia Muchnik and Alessandro Stanziani. During the same period, on June 22, 2019 Dr. Filioli Uranio was invited by Antoine Roullet and Jean-Paul Zúñiga to hold a seminar at the GEI.
During his secondment, on May 3rd and 4th 2019, Dr. Filioli Uranio held a seminar at Brown University (Providence, USA) entitled: Identity, Value, Price, Mobility: The Market of Captives and Slaves in Early Modern Naples and Valencia, (Brown University - The Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2019 Workshop: “Captivity & Ransom”).
During the month of the Work Package 3 Dr. Filioli Uranio was able to start writing a first index of the monograph on slavery in Naples and Valencia in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The six months of the Work Package 4 were used to prepare a first draft of the first chapters of the monograph. In addition, his second year of Fellowship corresponded with the assignment of teaching the course of Historia de los Origenes de Europa, in the part of Early Modern History at the University of Valencia (1.5 credits, 15 hours in the first semester 2019 -2020).
In the two months of Work Package 5 Dr. Filioli Uranio continued to work on the sources, already in his possession, of the Reino de Valencia Archive.
The Covid-19 Pandemic prevented the organization of the final conference of his fellowship.
