… Festival” was an annual multi-day celebration observed by enslaved and emancipated Africans in the Aegean port-city of Izmir in the nineteenth … as with elsewhere in the global African diaspora, the Africans of Izmir used this festival not only as cultural …
… May 2023 This presentation looks at advertisements for enslaved wet nurses in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, … to 1888 (final abolition). In it, I argue that enslaved wet nurses had to deny the physical and social … thus engaging in what I term “disembodied reproduction.” Enslaved wet nurses are examples of the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been …
… (EJI), the first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African … the U.S., from Louisville, to the King Center in Atlanta, among other stops. Akoto-Bamfo won the 2015 Kuenyehia Art …