1998/1999

Worlds of the Slave Trade: The Voyage of the Diligent, 1730-1731

January 20

Robert Harms, Yale University

Forum on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

February 12

Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School; Peter Onuf, University of Virginia; Drew Gilpin Faust, University of Pennsylvania

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Problem of Political Antislavery

March 3

Peter Field, Tennessee Technical University

Yoruban ethnicity in Nigeria and Brazil

March 5

J. Lorand Matory, Harvard University