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… concerning all aspects of slavery, especially the chattel slave system and its destruction. The Center seeks to foster … the 150th anniversaries of the sectional crisis and Civil War, the Gilder Lehrman Center has made a vital contribution … the Center is especially interested in the ways that the Atlantic slave system anticipated the assembly line, a mass …

… of the suffering classes of his own county and the slave, may lose us the sympathy of his countrymen, settled … disinterested devotion to our cause, on both sides of the Atlantic, entitle his statements to still more weight. I … is made from without. Slavery has been taking a downward course for seventy years; adding horror to horror, bloody …

… 2018/2019 … 2018/2019 Click on each event link to access the video recording and photos for that … conversation in the Yale University Art Gallery’s lecture hall. Within the context of Frederick Douglass’s … Rugemer, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in Early Atlantic World James Oakes (Distinguished Professor of …

… Prize (2004) JEAN FAGAN YELLIN’S BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY “SLAVE GIRL” TO WIN $25,000 FREDERICK DOUGLASS PRIZE (New … by her former owner, and her return south during the Civil War to establish a school for black refugees behind Union … the study of all aspects of slavery, in particular the Atlantic slave system, including African and African-American …

… prize for his book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 … fruits of emancipation in the French Caribbean and the Atlantic World. This gracefully written, carefully argued, … in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War , by Melvin Patrick Ely (Knopf Publishers), Ouidah: The …

… for the prize were Ezra Greenspan for “William Wells Brown: An African American Life” (W. W. Norton), and Michael … “Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World” (University of Pennsylvania Press). This … The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), the slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of the great …

… Njinga’s rule in the broader historical context of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Part documentary and … But she was an ally with the Dutch in the Thirty Years’ War. The whole shuffling of the Atlantic world, including …

… to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. His lecture course on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era at Yale is on … she received the John Hope Award for Public Service from Brown University.  She has an M.A. in International Economics …

… African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press). The … Rights (Verso Books); R.   Blakeslee   Gilpin   for John Brown Still Lives!:   America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, … The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of the great …

… this research, “ ‘In the Wreck of a Master’s Fortune’: Slave Provisioning and the Planter Debt in the British … In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World  (University of California Press, 2011). Randy …