The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
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GLC Book Talk: Jonathan Schroeder, "The U.S. Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots"
GLC Book Talk: David Blight in conversation with Jonathan Schroeder about "The U.S. Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots"
David Blight in conversation with Jonathan Schroeder (Lecturer, Literary Arts and Studies, Rhode Island School of Design) about his critical edition of John Swanson Jacobs’s autobiography, "The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery" (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
John Swanson Jacobs’ long-lost narrative, "The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots," is a startling and revolutionary discovery. John Jacobs-brother of Harriet Jacobs, a radical abolitionist, sailor, and miner-has a life story that is as glob...
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Akeia de Barros Gomes: “Who Speaks? Who Listens? Sharing Black and Indigenous Stories in Museums”
Просмотров 7814 дней назад
Akeia de Barros Gomes (William E. Cook Vice President, American Institute for Maritime Studies, Mystic Seaport Museum; Exhibit Curator: “Entwined: Freedom, Sovereignty, and the Sea”) In traditional maritime history water is envisioned as highway, a connector of people, a place of livelihood and survival. For Africans, their descendants, and Indigenous people of the Dawnland (New England) water ...
Roser Salicrú i Lluch on “Slavery in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: an Overview from the Former Cr
Просмотров 4814 дней назад
Roser Salicrú i Lluch on “Slavery in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: an Overview from the Former Crown of Aragon” Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, and the Council on European Studies, at Yale University’s MacMillan Center Introductions: David W. Blight: Director, Gilder Lehrman Center ...
GLC@Lunch with Patricia Lott “After Ruin: The Crafting of Public Collective Memory of Racial Slavery
Просмотров 4921 день назад
GLC@Lunch with Patricia Lott “After Ruin: The Crafting of Public Collective Memory of Racial Slavery in the Gradualist North" Patricia Lott (GLC Visiting Associate Professor; Associate Professor of English, Ursinus College) In this talk, Lott discusses her interdisciplinary book manuscript about the incomplete suppression of the U.S. North’s slavery past. The book, “After Ruin: The Crafting of ...
GLC Book Talk: "The Education Wars" and the Battle for Democracy
Просмотров 89Месяц назад
· Jennifer C. Berkshire (Freelance Journalist; Adjunct Faculty, Boston College Prison Education Program) · Johann Neem (Professor, Department of History, Western Washington University) In conversation with · David W. Blight (Director, Gilder Lehrman Center and Sterling Professor of History, Yale University) These speakers will discuss Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider’s new book, "The Ed...
Book Talk: Raymond Arsenault, John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
Просмотров 50Месяц назад
David W. Blight is the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History Emeritus at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several award-winning books on civil rights history, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the...
GLC@Lunch with Darlene Kascak "Quinnetukut: Our Homeland, Our History"
Просмотров 71Месяц назад
Darlene Kascak (Educational Outreach Ambassador, Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington, CT; Schaghticoke Tribal Nation) Much of what we learn about Connecticut’s past comes from a colonized perspective that has almost entirely left out the voices of Indigenous people who have called this land home for over 12,000 years. How knowledge about the past is preserved and passed down in ...
GLC@Lunch: Michael Tuck, “The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Cycle of Resistance along the Gambia R...
Просмотров 1915 месяцев назад
Michael Tuck, “The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Cycle of Resistance along the Gambia River in the 18th Century” African resistance to enslavement and slavery happened more frequently along the Gambia River than in other parts of West Africa. My research explains why, proposing that a distinctive culture of resistance to slavery developed in the Gambia River region by the eighteenth century. The...
GLC@Lunch: Christopher L. Leadingham, “The Greenup Slave Revolt"
Просмотров 1056 месяцев назад
GLC@Lunch: Christopher L. Leadingham, “The Greenup Slave Revolt: Slavery, Environment, and Resistance at the Edges of the Southern Mountains" Christopher L. Leadingham is the Associate Editor, Journal of Appalachian Studies; and Gilder Lehrman Center Visiting Scholar, May 2024 This work uses a slave revolt that happened in northeastern Kentucky, on the banks of the Ohio River, in August 1829, t...
GLC@Lunch: Makini Chisolm-Straker, "Structural reparations for US Blacks: Decolonizing 4 the 7 Gen"
Просмотров 4936 месяцев назад
Makini Chisolm-Straker is the 2023-2024 Argiro Fellow for the Study of Modern Slavery and Visiting Associate Professor, Gilder Lehrman Center Financial reparations have been repeatedly proposed for the enslavement of African and African-descendant people in the colonies and what would become the United States. Structural reparations are necessary to resolve the continued "badges of slavery." Dr...
GLC@Lunch: Cassia Roth, “Black Nurse, White Milk: Slavery and the Politics of Breastfeeding"
Просмотров 2157 месяцев назад
GLC@Lunch: Cassia Roth, “Black Nurse, White Milk: Slavery and the Politics of Breastfeeding in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" This presentation looks at advertisements for enslaved wet nurses in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It analyzes an original dataset of advertisements in the city’s main commercial newspaper, the Jornal do Commercio, from 1827 (its first year of pu...
GLC@Lunch: Jonathan Lande, "Black Deserters and the Journey of Emancipation during the Civil War”
Просмотров 1409 месяцев назад
Tracing the lives of Black deserters in US Army camps, courts, and prisons, Jonathan Lande yields a new understanding of the experiences of formerly enslaved soldiers who fought to bring about their bondage-born dreams of freedom. He contends that even after enlistment and military engagement with Rebel forces, some Black southern-born troopers were compelled to continue to fight to make freedo...
Ana Lucia Araujo’s The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism
Просмотров 3299 месяцев назад
Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor of History, Howard University) in conversation with Cécile Fromont (Professor of History of Art, Yale University) about Professor Araujo’s book, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Sponsored by the Yale University Department of the History of Art, Department of History, and the Gilder Le...
GLC@Lunch: Shantel George, "The Kola Nut in the Atlantic World: Consumption Cultures and Diaspori...
Просмотров 1579 месяцев назад
This project foregrounds the role of Africans in the production, distribution, and consumption of the kola nut from 1500-1900. My research has two objectives: to chart the complex history and wide-ranging influence of the kola nut in Africa, the circum-Caribbean, Europe, and North America over this extended time period, and to use this investigation of the kola nut as a case study to highlight ...
The Story We Tell Ourselves: The Long History and Fight for Black Public Education in America
Просмотров 27910 месяцев назад
The Story We Tell Ourselves: The Long History and Fight for Black Public Education in America
GLC@Lunch: Eric Herschthal, "Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change"
Просмотров 418Год назад
GLC@Lunch: Eric Herschthal, "Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change"
GLC@Lunch: Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
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GLC@Lunch: Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
Teaching Connecticut’s Shade Tobacco Industry
Просмотров 212Год назад
Teaching Connecticut’s Shade Tobacco Industry
Perspectives on Slavery and Freedom in Brazil - in English
Просмотров 3922 года назад
Perspectives on Slavery and Freedom in Brazil - in English
Vincent Brown: “Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave War”
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Vincent Brown: “Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave War”
Amanda Kleintop on Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War
Просмотров 3632 года назад
Amanda Kleintop on Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War
The Amistad Committee - 2020 Human Rights Day talk featuring Dr. Vijay Prashad
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 года назад
The Amistad Committee - 2020 Human Rights Day talk featuring Dr. Vijay Prashad
Gleaming in the Shadow of Slavery: A Conversation with Descendants of African Americans of Old Yale
Просмотров 5 тыс.3 года назад
Gleaming in the Shadow of Slavery: A Conversation with Descendants of African Americans of Old Yale
Holly Lynton on Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Methodist Camp Meetings
Просмотров 1853 года назад
Holly Lynton on Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Methodist Camp Meetings
David Blight and Teanu Reid on the Yale and Slavery Research Project
Просмотров 6553 года назад
David Blight and Teanu Reid on the Yale and Slavery Research Project
Amb. Luis C.deBaca (ret.) on The 13th Amendment & the History of the Trafficking Victims Protection
Просмотров 2093 года назад
Amb. Luis C.deBaca (ret.) on The 13th Amendment & the History of the Trafficking Victims Protection
Reparations: A Community Conversation
Просмотров 1553 года назад
Reparations: A Community Conversation
Teaching the History of Residential Segregation in Connecticut
Просмотров 4683 года назад
Teaching the History of Residential Segregation in Connecticut
Survivor Knowledge from the Holocaust, Antebellum Slavery, & Contemporary Slavery
Просмотров 7983 года назад
Survivor Knowledge from the Holocaust, Antebellum Slavery, & Contemporary Slavery
The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses in Bridgeport, CT with Maisa Tisdale
Просмотров 5063 года назад
The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses in Bridgeport, CT with Maisa Tisdale