Sex & Slavery Lab events continue for Fall 2018. On September 25, the Sex & Slavery Lab hosted Dr. LaMonda Horton Stallings for a discussion of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Se… Source: Dr. LaMonda Horton Stallings Visits Sex & Slavery Lab at Johns Hopkins University – Sex & Slavery Lab
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Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Visits the Sex & Slavery Lab at Johns Hopkins University – Sex & Slavery Lab
The Sex and Slavery Lab launched for fall 2018 with its first speaker, Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, City University of New York. Cooper Owens visited campus September 18-20th as a guest of… Source: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens Visits the Sex & Slavery Lab at Johns Hopkins University – Sex & Slavery Lab
BLOGROLL: Class on Slavery at MIT | MIT News
Findings show founder William Barton Rogers possessed enslaved persons before coming to MIT; research, community dialogue to ensue: "MIT was founded in 1861 and began offering classes in 1865, just as the U.S. Civil War was ending the era of legal slavery in the South. But even as the Institute emerged in a new historical … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Class on Slavery at MIT | MIT News
AUDIO: Fuentes on Colonial Port Cities and Slavery | Ben Franklin’s World
Marisa Fuentes discusses Barbados, port cities, and slavery with Liz Covart on the podcast Ben Franklin's World: "The histories of early North America and the Caribbean are intimately intertwined. The same European empires we encounter in our study of early America also appear in the Caribbean and the colonies in these respective empires often traded … Continue reading AUDIO: Fuentes on Colonial Port Cities and Slavery | Ben Franklin’s World
DIGITAL/CONF: Story Map for Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
Moya Bailey, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jessica Marie Johnson, Liz Losh, Marisa Parham, and more present at the OIEAHC/Equality Lab conference Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities, October 26-28, 2017. Johnson writes: "We’ve got a map!!! Thank you Liz Losh and the team at the Equality Lab for this really amazing visualization of our DH work. … Continue reading DIGITAL/CONF: Story Map for Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities
VIDEO: Dave the Potter Excerpt: Field Cotton
Video below: "Honoring the history and creativity of an exceptional enslaved potter and poet, David Drake, through performance and poetry." Directed by: Dr. Lynnette Young Overby with Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman
ARTICLE: Holden on African-American Children and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831
Vanessa M. Holden. "Generation, resistance, and survival: African-American children and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831." Slavery & Abolition pp. 1-47 (2017) Abstract: "The Southampton Rebellion of 1831, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, stands as the most famous slave rebellion in American History. Historians have studied the rebellion extensively often focusing on Turner’s biography, the incident’s violent sequence … Continue reading ARTICLE: Holden on African-American Children and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831
ASWAD Statement on the U.S. Election
The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora issued a statement on the U.S. presidential election: November 28, 2016 Over the past two weeks, in the aftermath of a hotly contested presidential election, a wave of racist and xenophobic attacks has swept across the United States. In elementary and middle schools, young Latino/a … Continue reading ASWAD Statement on the U.S. Election
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers: “…they would have been abolitionists.”
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 18, 2016, in light of the recent election, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, associate professor of history at Indiana University-Bloomington offered this reminder on Facebook of what standing up against injustice has … Continue reading Amrita Chakrabarti Myers: “…they would have been abolitionists.”
AUDIO: American Exodus: A History of Emigration [rebroadcast] by BackStory
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 11, 2016, in light of the recent election, the BackStory podcast rebroadcast its episode on emigration and immigration, which included stories on free blacks who sailed to Liberia during the … Continue reading AUDIO: American Exodus: A History of Emigration [rebroadcast] by BackStory
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