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… is located in New Haven, Connecticut, the home port of the freedom schooner Amistad, and a city with a rich storehouse of events in the history of slavery, resistance, and abolition. Our emphasis on local … The website includes online documents, a lesson plan, a narrative of the Amistad incident, an abolitionism timeline, …

… this academic year as a Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center … brown men, cultures, and nations. The empowerment narrative, however, erases local activist efforts and … the research for it? Given that my main interest is in how visual and verbal representations of women and children’s …

… Lehrman Center and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, with funding from the Abraham Lincoln … For more information visit http://www.yale.edu/glc/nhd/ . Slavery and Freedom in American History and Memory The Gilder … materials related to slavery and abolition. A Canterbury Tale: A Resource Package for Connecticut’s Prudence Crandall …

… Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the … of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans” (University of North Carolina Press). … they derived better status in enslavement or eventual freedom. Fluid prose, careful reading of fraught legal …

… was critical for Douglass. From the first pages of his Narrative, in which he lamented his unrecorded slave past, Douglass associated slavery with a lack of personal information. Thus, the … outlines of his self-perception. Though Douglass had more freedom to make these decisions than he had when touring in …

… Lab, discusses his research project “Passages to Freedom: Worlding the North American Slave Narrative.” “Passages to Freedom” examines the language and … author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery  in Jamaica, which examines the struggles for control …

… announced The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center … presents an intellectual history of the southern elite in antebellum America. In addition to showing how a reluctant, … “radical, democratic movement.” Challenging a historical narrative often skeptical of white anti-slavery activists, …

… Paper Abstracts … Paper Abstracts   Legacies of Slavery in Jamaica Edward Rugemer, Yale University … Infuence: First of August Celebrations in the Antebellum United States” Petrine Archer-Straw, Cornell … so do we, so weh the difference: Reflections on Labor and Freedom in post-Emancipation Jamaica” Music and the Legacies …

… be delivered at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition Yale University, October 1999 Abstract … concerned with the reputation of the trade both during the antebellum period and in the century and more after. The … subject and was inevitably at the centre of antebellum slavery debates between the North and South. The trader, I …

… College .  LaTanya joins Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss Art and Activism.   On … discusses his post-doctoral research project “Passages to Freedom: Worlding the North American Slave Narrative.” “Passages to Freedom” examines the language and …

… 24, 4:15 pm, James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College   Slavery in Sudan Today November 9 4:15 pm John Eibner, … University.   Muslim Literacy and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum United States. January 29, 6:00 pm Sylviane Diouf, …   Slave, Subject, Citizen: Gender and the Transition to Freedom in the French Caribbean, 1635-1848. April 17, 4:15 pm …

… 9:00-11:45 Session 1: Benjamin Isaac, Tel Aviv University: Slavery and Proto-racism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity David … College: Black Responses to Scientific Racism in the Antebellum North Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester: Racism Without Slavery and Slavery Without Racism in the Mainland North …