Latest episode by Ana Lucia Araujo: On slavery in Monticello, the home of US President Thomas Jefferson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPVwOrUgkZ8
Month: July 2017
BLOGROLL: Roberts on Preservation and Social Justice| National Trust for Historic Preservation
Andrea Roberts, founder of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project and a scholar of heritage conservation and urban planning discusses historic preservation and social justice: "Preservationists have argued for a shift toward a people-centered history. Even the National Trust for Historic Preservation has talked about inclusivity, about preservation’s role in telling the American story, about revitalizing depressed … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Roberts on Preservation and Social Justice| National Trust for Historic Preservation
VIDEO: Valongo Wharf on Slavery Archive TV
With Ana Lucia Araujo: This episode focuses on Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which was recently included in UNESCO's World Heritage List. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IglHc3Q77A8
BOOK: Semley on Citizenship in the French Atlantic
Lorelle Semley, To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2017. via Cambridge U Press: The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a … Continue reading BOOK: Semley on Citizenship in the French Atlantic
BOOK: Browne on Slavery in Berbice, British Caribbean
Browne, Randy M. Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. via Penn Press: Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled … Continue reading BOOK: Browne on Slavery in Berbice, British Caribbean
BOOK: Greene on the Slave Owners of West Africa
Sandra E. Greene, Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition. Indiana University Press, 2017. via Indiana U Press: In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, … Continue reading BOOK: Greene on the Slave Owners of West Africa
BOOK: Schmidt-Nowara on Slavery and Freedom in Latin America
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. via UNM Press: The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in … Continue reading BOOK: Schmidt-Nowara on Slavery and Freedom in Latin America
SX Salon 24 | Small Axe Project
From the introduction by Kelly Baker Josephs: "In the past two months, we have lost two remarkable members of the Caribbean literary community. Recently, Derek Walcott, 87, passed away in St. Lucia. There has, even in the short time since his death on 17 March, been much written in tribute to Walcott’s legacy and I … Continue reading SX Salon 24 | Small Axe Project
BLOGROLL: Sandra Greene and the Curious History of Slavery in Africa | Cornell Research
Cornell University feature on the work of scholar Sandra Greene: "Sandra Greene writes about the history of slavery in West Africa, where warring political communities in previous centuries enslaved their enemies...." "Greene has written a series of books, examining the nature of slavery in West Africa—how it operated and what forms it took. Her latest … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Sandra Greene and the Curious History of Slavery in Africa | Cornell Research
DIGITAL: The Caribbean Memory Project
"The Caribbean Memory Project (CMP) is the Caribbean’s first crowd-sourced cultural heritage research platform. It is designed to activate and engage the memory of cultural heritage among a mixed audience and to aid in counteracting the effects of erasure and forgetting occurring in a growing number of contemporary Caribbean communities. The CMP is motivated by enduring … Continue reading DIGITAL: The Caribbean Memory Project
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