2015/2016

Beyond the Slave Narrative: 18th Century Voices of the African Diaspora

Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Sophie White, University of Notre Dame

A Plausible Man: The Storied Life of Fugitive Slave and Transatlantic Agitator, John Andrew Jackson

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Susanna Ashton, Clemson University

No One Was More Faithful: George W. Taylor, Quakerism, and Reform in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Julie Holcomb, Baylor University

A Cultural History of African Slavery in the Ottoman Empire – The Calf Festival of Izmir

Monday, February 22, 2016
Michael Ferguson, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Establishing Liberté: Freed Slave Communities on the Edge of the Colonial State in Kayes, Mali (1890-1940)

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Marie Rodet, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Jordan Saunders: A Life in the Slave Trade

Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Joshua Rothman, University of Alabama

A Critical Era for the Slave Trade: Salem, Massachusetts and Bristol, Rhode Island, 1781-1808

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Sean Kelley, University of Essex