Joe Yannielli
Jessica R. Pliley and Zoe Trodd, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies.
Joe Yannielli studies the history of slavery and abolition, with a special focus on America,West Africa, and the wider world during the nineteenth century. Other areas of interest include political and social movements, missionaries and religion, capitalism and globalization, and the United States in the world. His dissertation focused on the Mendi Mission and the role of Africa in the American abolition of slavery. His book on the Mendi Mission is under contract with Harvard University Press, and his scholarly work
on a variety of subjects can be found in the Journal of American History,Common-
Place, Slavery & Abolition, the Journal of Social History, the British Journal for the
History of Science, the European Journal of Political Theory, and elsewhere. At Yale, he
established the History from Below colloquium to explore grassroots perspectives on the
past. He also created Digital Histories @ Yale to promote the use of new and emerging
technologies for research and teaching.
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