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Brett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France”
Brett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France”
Brett Rushforth, Associate Professor, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France” Zoom RSVP Here
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Erin Rowe, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University “The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination”
Erin Rowe, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University “The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination”
Beginning in the seventeenth-century, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah, the inclusion of Ancient Ethiopia in these efforts tell a more complex […]
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Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor of History, NYU “Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making, 1834-1836”
Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor of History, NYU “Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making, 1834-1836”
This talk follows Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Watara, a Timbuktu-born teenager who was enslaved in Jamaica from 1805 to 1834. Upon securing his manumission, Watara undertook a trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan journey, in a bid to return home. A close examination of Watara’s words and writings about him, and a reconstruction of his trajectory, provides insight into […]
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