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… Lab, discusses his research project “Passages to Freedom: Worlding the North American Slave Narrative.” “Passages to Freedom” examines the language and … the experiences  and trajectories of former slaves between slavery and post-emancipation, as well as  housework. He was …

… and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He … Douglass, entitled, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Blight is the author of Frederick Douglass’s Civil … some six books, including editions of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative and My Bondage and My Freedom; W. E. B. Du Bois’s …

… century U.S. history, African American history, and slavery. He recently published an article in the Journal of … in the 19th century. His forthcoming manuscript, Sick from Freedom: The Deadly Consequences of Emancipation (Oxford … and on the idea of reparations for slavery as a historical narrative. On the other, he has been working on a history of …

… to Be”     Keynote Talk at Yale, conference on Yale and Slavery .   David W. Blight   In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s … forged one of the foundations of modern capitalism, and a tale of migration and cultural transplantation that brought … idea of a national memory—if by that we mean the master narrative from which people garner a collective sense of …

… Northwestern University,  Beasts and Blood: Legacies of Slavery in Colonial Ghana Susan Eva O’Donovan, University of Memphis,  Writing Slavery into Freedom’s Story: Mobility and Messages in the Late Antebellum South Allyson Hobbs, Stanford University,  “A …

… 2018 La Tanya Autry joins Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss Art and Activism. La … Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom”, that features photography of a groundbreaking … that centers on twentieth and twenty-first century visual culture of the African-American liberation struggle. …

… assembled, in order to hear an account of the system of slavery from one who had experienced what it was to be a … manner of learned men, but they would listen to his simple narrative of the arguments he might advance against slavery … chains, and by going to Massachusetts secured a partial freedom. He made that place his home till within the last …

… in the Civil War Era Sep 11, 2017 In this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies Joshua Lynn joins Thomas Thurston to discuss the antebellum Democratic Party’s effort to transform itself into …  with subject line “podcast.” “Slavery and Its Legacies” is available on  iTunes University …

… Political Parties, Electoral Politics, and the Problem of Slavery  Moderator: David Blight  Pamela Brandwein … (Assoc. Professor, Political Science, UMass-Amherst), “Antebellum Nationalism in Black and White” Elizabeth Varon … Democracy, Then and Now?  Moderator: David Blight  Martha Jones (Presidential Professor of History, John …

… South and Southeast Asia through a focus on regional art, visual and public cultures, and media practices. By drawing … art as a global phenomenon. It also shows the way visual, public, and media cultures of the inter-Asian … Southeast Asia reveal about the modern and contemporary visual culture of the state. In doing so, “The Art of the …

… South and Southeast Asia through a focus on regional art, visual and public cultures, and media practices. By drawing … art as a global phenomenon. It also shows the way visual, public, and media cultures of the inter-Asian … Southeast Asia reveal about the modern and contemporary visual culture of the state. In doing so, “The Art of the …