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Photographs of Past Events
2009
- From Social Sin to Social Gospel: The Antislavery Origins of Social Christianity
Molly Oshatz, Assistant Professor of History, Florida State University
Moderately antislavery Protestants including Leonard Bacon, Horace Bushnell, and Edward Beecher believed that slavery was a sin, but not a sin of the regular sort -- it was a social sin, and as such, its eradication necessitated the moral progress of society. Oshatz will trace the unorthodox and troubling notion of social sin from its antislavery origins through the late-nineteenth century development of the Social Gospel. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Slavery and the Literary Imagination
The 2009 David Brion Davis Lectures
Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University; E.L. Doctorow, New York University; Caryl Phillips, Yale University; and Natasha Trethewey, Emory University present a panel discussion on their poetry and literature.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
View online video.
- With as Much Security and Profit as Ever: Slave Stealing and an Insurrection Panic on the Frontiers of Cotton Capitalism
Joshua Rothman, Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Recovering William Grimes, the First African American Fugitive Slave Narrator
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Regina E. Mason, University of California at Berkeley
William L. Andrews and Regina E. Mason discuss their recent edition of the Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Andrews, a historian, and Mason, Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter, will share their extensive historical and genealogical research, which uncovered pages from an original Grimes family Bible, transcriptions of the 1824 correspondence that set the terms for the author's self-purchase in Connecticut (nine years after his escape from Savannah, Georgia), and many other striking images that invoke the life and times of William Grimes.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Saturday, March 21, 2009.
10:00 a.m. Regisration, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Program- The History and Art of Capoeira
Thomas J. Desch-Obi, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, and Efraim Silva, Capoeira Master, The Connecticut Capoeira Center
Thomas J. Desch-Obi, a leading scholar in the field of African and Diasporic martial arts, discusses the history of Capoeira, its roots in Africa, and its traditions as art, honor, and resistance in the Diaspora. Following lunch, Efraim Silva, a Capoeira Master and performing artist, will demonstrate the art of Capoeira with a team of performers and lead an interactive workshop. Space is limited and registration is free, but required. If you are a teacher and would like to receive CEUs for this workshop, please arrive with cash or a check for $5 made out to "Yale University." For additional information and to register for the program please contact gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.
- Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Richard S. Newman, Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology
Richard S. Newman discusses his recent biography of Richard Allen, a former slave who settled in Philadelphia during the nation's founding era and established the African Methodist Episcopal church, one of the first independent black churches in the western world. Newman will explore how Allen helped define the meaning of black protest and leadership, shaping visions of equality in Jefferson's time that we are still trying to realize in our time.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Unsettling Mortgage Story You Haven't Heard: Raising Cash & Credit with Slave Collateral
Bonnie Martin, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow, Department of History, Yale University
Today, many of us need mortgages to buy homes, and many of us use equity mortgages to access the savings invested in our houses. Slaveholders did the same, and we are just beginning to realize the powerful impact these mortgages had on colonial and antebellum economies. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- "On the Side of Righteousness": Women, the Church, and Abolition in the U.S.
Stacey Robertson, Chair, History Department, Bradley University
Robertson explores how women negotiated their antislavery sentiment within their churches, using a surprising variety of spiritual and organizational tools. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Frederick Douglass Now
In this monologue, actor/writer Roger Guenveur Smith renders Frederick Douglass' life and legacy in contemporary cadences through his creative use of the abolitionist's 19th-century letters, editorials and speeches. Smith concluded the premiere run of Frederick Douglass Now the day that Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years of detention to assume the presidency of South Africa. Having now played Douglass -- and a host of other characters -- to international acclaim, Smith revives his solo performance at an equally auspicious political moment. The performance is 70 minutes duration. This program is co-sponsored by: World Performance Project, Afro-American Cultural Center, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, New Ideas in African American Studies lecture series, Yale Drama School, Department of African American Studies, Film Studies Program, Calhoun College, Theater Studies Program, and American Studies Program.
Nick Chapel, 241 Elm St.
2008
- A Civil War Christmas
Sunday Symposium at the Long Wharf Theatre with David Blight
GLC Director David Blight leads a symposium following the matinee production of Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel's new musical A Civil War Christmas. For information on the play and on obtaining tickets visit http://www.longwharf.org/season_08-09.html.
Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven, CT
- Mgr Comboni's Struggle for Slavery's Abolition in Central Africa
Sindani Kiangu, Associate Professor of African History, University of Kinshasa, R.D.C.
Using research from the thousands of letters and documents left by Mgr Daniele Comboni, a 19th-century Italian missionary and abolitionist, Sindani Kiangu explores the complexities and drama of central African slavery. In his talk, Kiangu underlines the faith of this man who believed that it was not possible to "develop" Africa without taking into account its inhabitants' humanity. Kiangu also links Comboni's faith to 21st century efforts to improve the lives of Africans.
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Racism, Nationalism and Interracial Relationships in the United States and Germany, 1877-1917
Holger Drössler, America-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
In his talk, Drössler will discuss the transatlantic cross-fertilizations of racism and nationalism at the turn of the 20th century, laying particular emphasis on scientific and public discourses on interracial relationships in the post-Reconstruction United States as well as in the German colonies in Africa. Seen from a perspective that ventures beyond the confines of the nation state, parallels in these discourses -- such as strategies of internal and external othering or paternalism -- illuminate the contours of a transatlantic discursive space in that period.
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Emancipation Through Sound: Jamaican Popular Music as Resistance
Garnette Cadogan, Independent Scholar and Gilder Lehrman Center Fellow
How is popular music, specifically reggae, a form of resistance? And can we consider it a slave narrative of sorts? This talk will examine the role that Jamaican popular music played in the struggle against slavery and its significance for the meaning and legacy of slavery. Part listening session, part lecture, the talk will focus on music as struggle and testimony, examining how Jamaicans used sound to answer the age-old question, "How shall we sing in a strange land?" We will probe accounts of life in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Jamaica to uncover songs that will help us hear, in the words of Seamus Heaney, "a music that you never would have known to listen for," and we will pay close attention to twentieth century Jamaican songs that are part of the ongoing campaign for freedom. Consequently, we will travel from colonial plantations to modern concert halls, from the historical archives to our collective imagination, to tell a history of antislavery through the story of Jamaican popular music.
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Hall of Graduates Studies, Room 401, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT
- Accepting the Unacceptable: Legitimating and Criticizing Slavery before the Abolitionist Era
Part of the Racism, Xenophobia, and Slavery before the Modern Era Lecture Series
Olivier P_tr_-Grenouilleau, Professor of Modern History, Paris Institute of Political Studies (...cole doctorale, Sciences Po)
Olivier P_tr_-Grenouilleau is a specialist of the history of slavery. His book, Les traites n_gri_res. Essai d'histoire globale (Gallimard, 2004, currently being translated English), contextualized the transatlantic slave trade in a global historiographical perspective in view of the black slave trade in Africa from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. This book won the French Senate history book award for 2005, the French Academy essay award for 2005, and the Chateaubriand la Vall_e au Loups History award for 2005. Prof. P_tr_-Grenouilleau is also the author of L'argent de la traite. Milieu n_grier, capitalisme et d_veloppement: un mod_le (1996), Les n_goces maritimes fran_ais XVIIe-XXe si_cle (1997), and Saint-Simon (1760-1825). L'utopie ou la raison en actes (2001).
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Edward J. and Dorothy Kempf Fund, the MacMillan Center, and the Department of History.
- Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds: Global Connections and Disconnections
Tenth Annual International Conference.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Drew Faust, President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University
Drew Gilpin Faust, historian and President of Harvard University, and David W. Blight, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, have a conversation about Faust's recent book, The Republic of Suffering, which looks at the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans.
Reception to follow.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
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- Physiognomy, the Eyes of Slaves, and Medieval Scientific Racism
Part of the Racism, Xenophobia, and Slavery before the Modern Era Lecture Series
Steven A. Epstein, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History, University of Kansas
Steven A. Epstein is a historian of medieval Europe, who specializes in economic and social history. His has worked on city government in the Middle Ages, slavery and labor in Italy, and family life in urban medieval Italy and the Mediterranean. His book Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (Cornell Univ. Press, 2001) reveals the development and dynamics of the institution of slavery in a multi-cultural medieval society, and questions the relation between slavery and the concepts of racism and color. His other publications include: Wills and wealth in medieval Genoa, 1150-1250 (Harvard Univ. Press, 1984), Wage labor & guilds in medieval Europe (The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991), Genoa and the Genoese 958-1528 (The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996) a 1997 Choice outstanding academic book, and Purity lost : transgressing boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400 (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies in Historical and Political Science, 2006).
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Edward J. and Dorothy Kempf Fund, the MacMillan Center, and the Department of History.
- Paternalism and Performance at the New York African Free School
Anna Mae Duane, Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Torrington and Storrs
The New York African Free School was an institution poised at a crucial moment in New York City's movement from slavery to manumission. This talk recovers and analyzes the records of this remarkable institution to explore the experience of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City -- a cohort that included James McCune Smith, Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, Ira Aldridge and others.
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 401, 320 York St., New Haven, CT
- Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Christopher L. Brown, Professor of History at Columbia University
Brown discusses his Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book Moral Capital.
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT
- The Origins of Racism in the West
Part of the Racism, Xenophobia, and Slavery before the Modern Era Lecture Series
Benjamin H. Isaac, Lessing Professor of Ancient History, University of Tel Aviv.
A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and recipient of the Israel Prize for 2008, Benjamin Isaac is a historian of Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Byzantine history who specializes in social and political history. His current research focuses on racism in Greco-Roman Antiquity. His last book, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (Princeton Univ. Press, 2004), has already become a classic. It has challenged the definition of racism in view of Greco-Roman cultural discourse and has revealed the roots and origins of modern racism. Prof. Isaac is also the author of The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (1990) and The Greek Settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian Conquest (1986).
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Edward J. and Dorothy Kempf Fund, the MacMillan Center, and the Department of History.
- The Confederate "Cornerstone" as International Sensation
Robert Bonner, Gilder Lehrman Center Postdoctoral Fellow
Foreign commentary on the Confederate rebellion returned again and again to the "Cornerstone Address" delivered by Alexander H. Stephens during the secession crisis. In this presentation, Robert Bonner will address the global dynamics of Stephens' proslavery manifesto and how his address nourished the Confederacy's international reputation as a diabolical slaveocracy. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Gordon-Reed discusses her work on Thomas Jefferson and slavery.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Closing of the Slave Trades: Transatlantic Perspectives, An International Symposium
Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A conference co-sponsored with the Queens University School of History and Anthropology. Conference panelists will contemplate trans-Atlantic perspectives on this renewed examination of the beginning of the end of the slave trade's dominance of the Atlantic World. Special attention will be paid to the influence of Irish antislavery during this transforming epoch. For further information visit the symposium website at For further information visit the symposium website at www.yale.edu/glc/queens/.
- Slavery on Shifting Grounds: The Prohibition of the African Slave Trade and Brazilian Slavery in the 19th Century
Beatriz Mamigonian, Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, and GLC Fellow
Mamigonian explores the impact of the abolition of the African slave trade on the legitimacy of Brazilian slavery in the nineteenth century. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Lost Worlds of Venture Smith
John Wood Sweet, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and GLC Fellow
Sweet uses the dramatic story of Venture Smith, an enslaved African in New England who earned his freedom, to anchor an analysis of the colonial dynamics that brought together — and kept apart — a series of disparate regions and peoples in the increasingly global early modern world.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Moving Midway: A Film Screening and Discussion with the Director
Award-winning Southern film critic Godfrey Cheshire uses the relocation of his family's North Carolina plantation as the occasion to examine the Southern plantation in American history and culture, including its impact on areas as diverse as music, movies, and contemporary race relations. Part present-tense family drama, part cultural essay, the film also involves an ongoing dialogue between Cheshire and Dr. Robert Hinton, an African-American history professor whose grandfather was born a slave at Midway Plantation. Refreshments to precede film screening. Co-sponsored with the Yale History Department. Please RSVP to gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.
Rosenfeld Hall, Room 101, Corner of Temple and Grove Streets, New Haven, CT (use Temple Street Side Entrance)
- Middle Passage: Conversations on Black Religion in the American Diaspora
A major interdisciplinary conference on Black religion in the American Diaspora with a focus the Middle Passage as a framework to examine the current ways in which Black religion is studied, taught, and lived in contemporary life.
Yale University Divinity School
For more information visit
www.yale.edu/divinity/middlepassage.
- On Slavery's Borders: Small Slaveholding in Antebellum Missouri
Diane Mutti-Burke, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and GLC Fellow
Mutti-Burke explores the diversity found within Southern plantations by illuminating how region and the size of slaveholding altered slavery. Bring your lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Nation the Slaveholders Made: Proslavery Americanism in Comparative Perspective
Robert Bonner, Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Bonner examines a multi-faceted "proslavery Americanism" that sought to nationalize Southern slaveholding within the late antebellum U.S. before providing a platform for the Confederate departure of the early 1860s. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Christopher L. Brown, Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University
Brown discusses his Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book Moral Capital.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Doing Public History in the Real World: A Panel and Discussion
Featuring, Peter Almond, Film writer and Producer, Beacon Pictures; Alice Greenwald, Executive Vice President and Director, National September 11th Memorial and Museum; and Katherine Kane, Executive Director, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Moderated by David W. Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center.
Co-sponsored with the Initiative on Public Humanities.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT
- The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Christopher Miller, Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of French and African and Afro-American Studies at Yale
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, CT
Co-sponsored by the GLC, the French Department, and the African Studies Program at Yale
- Long Time Gone: The Memory of Slavery in the South
Edward Ball, GLC Fellow and author of the National Book Award-winning book Slaves in the Family
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Slave Ship: A Human History: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Marcus Rediker, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, CT
- Becoming Free in the Cotton South: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Susan O'Donovan, Associate Professor of History at Harvard University
Susan O'Donovan discusses her new book, an intimate investigation of slavery, freedom, and the always contingent and often constrained passages that lay in between. Focusing on that corner of Georgia once described by W. E. B. Du Bois as the richest of slave kingdoms, she will pay special attention to the gendered dimensions of slavery and how men and women's experiences in bondage helped call into being a deeply — and differently — gendered system of free labor.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Property & Personhood: Fictions of Slave Character in Early America
Jeannine DeLombard, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto and GLC Fellow
Taking early African-American gallows narratives as a point of departure, DeLombard considers how portrayals of black criminality troubled notions of not only the slave's "mixed character" as property and person, but the very concept of legal personhood. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we'll provide drinks and dessert.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
2007
- Writing Freedom: An African Mother & her Children in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
Rebecca J. Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
In this lecture, Scott narrates an Atlantic itinerary that begins with the enslavement in West Africa of a woman called Rosalie, who was transported to the French colony of Saint Domingue as a slave in the 1780s. Rosalie 'of the Poulard nation' left multiple written traces of her efforts to secure her freedom and to defend the dignity of her children and grandchildren, from Saint Domingue to Cuba to New Orleans. Her strategies and experiences cast light on the vernacular origins of ideologies of rights, and suggest one way of understanding the activism of her grandson, Edouard Tinchant, a radical Republican delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1867-68.
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Islamic Law & Abolition in East Africa and Arabia
Bernard K. Freamon, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law, and GLC Fellow.
Until very recently, Islamic conceptions of human equality were historically impoverished and dominated by tribal, cultural, linguistic, and imperial imperatives rather than the pietistic egalitarianism that was originally part of the Qur'anic and Muhammadan vision for Islamic societies. In this talk Freamon will use his research to: (1) undertake a critical examination of the history of slavery and abolition in selected locales with a view toward uncovering juridical and sociolegal factors that play a role in shaping ideas about equality among Muslims; and (2) briefly explore a phenomenon he describes as "Post-Enlightenment Qur'anic Hermeneutics," asking whether the problem of slavery and abolition in Muslim legal culture has had or should have any impact on contemporary interpretations of the Qur'an. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Space is limited. Please RSVP to gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The Slavery of Gypsies in the Romanian Principalities — Some Parallels with Slavery in America
Viorel Achim, Senior Researcher, "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History, Bucharest, and GLC Fellow
Achim discusses slavery of the Gypsies (Roma), a population of Indian origin, in the Romanian principalities of Walachia and Moldavia from the 14th century until mid-19th century, when slavery was abolished. The talk highlights the last decades of Gypsy slavery and the emancipation process, and draws a parallel with the slavery in the U.S. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Space is limited. Please RSVP to gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Ending Slavery: A Book Talk and Discussion with Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales, Free the Slaves
Kevin Bales discusses his new work Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves. Co-sponsored by Love146 (formerly Justice for Children International, Inc.) For more information visit www.love146.org.
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, CT
- A Slave No More: A Reading & Discussion with the Author
David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center
Blight discusses his new book featuring two newly uncovered slave narratives and the biographies of the men who wrote them. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives tell the gripping stories of escape of Wallace Turnage and John Washington.
Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, CT
- The Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation: Jamaica in the Atlantic World
Ninth Annual International Conference, co-sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art. More information is available at the conference website.
YCBA, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT.
- The Prophet of Zongo Street: A Reading by the Author, Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Blending African folklore and myths with modernity, Ghana-born author and musician Mohammed Ali reads from his collection of short stories about Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa. Co-sponsored by the "Literature of the Middle Passage" Program and the African Studies Council.
Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- The 'Southern Trade': The Northern Business of Manufacturing Shoes, Shirts, and Hoes for Slaves
Seth Rockman, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University and GLC Fellow
Rockman explores the making and marketing of "plantation goods," a lucrative trade that gave the North a crucial role in the international economy of slavery. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Space is limited. Please RSVP to gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Empowering Women in Africa
The Vital Voices Connecticut Council, the Yale NAACP, and the Gilder Lehrman Center will co-host "Empowering Women in Africa" at the Yale Afro-American Cultural Center. The general public is invited to attend. More information is available at www.yale.edu/glc/vitalvoices.doc.
- Charles C. Jones and the 'Secret Transcripts' of Gullah Slaves
Erskine Clarke, Professor of American Religious History, Columbia Theological Seminary, and author of the Bancroft prize-winning book, A Dwelling Place
Clarke will discuss the overlapping and competing worlds of Charles C. Jones and certain Gullah slaves of the Georgia lowcountry. Special attention will be given to the slow erosion of Jones's moral vision regarding the evils of slavery and to the ways in which a careful reading of what James C. Scott has called "the hidden transcripts" reveals varied strategies of resistance by individual slaves, in particular Phoebe and Patience, Cato and Cassius.
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT
- Nowhere to Run: Emancipation During the Civil War
James Oakes, Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center
Louis Hughes's life as a slave before and during the Civil War reveals several things: how much struggle it took to achieve emancipation, what that struggle tells us about the nature of slavery, and what emancipation therefore tells us about the meaning of freedom.
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119A, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT
- Film Screening: The Better Hour: William Wilberforce: A Man of Character Who Changed the World
As part of their upcoming conference on Liberty, Slavery, and the Christian Missions, the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity is screening the film The Better Hour: William Wilberforce: A Man of Character Who Changed the World, a documentary that will be broadcast on PBS in Fall 2007. The general public is invited to attend this screening. Luce Hall Auditorium. 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT.
- The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America, a Book Talk and Discussion
Robert P. Forbes, Lecturer in the Yale History Department and former Associate Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, discusses his recent work published by UNC Press. Reception to follow. Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street.
- Violence Against and Abuse of Child Domestic Workers: NGO Campaigns and Government Legislation Combating Child Labor in Late 20th-Century Ghana
In the 1990s Ghanaian anti-child labor organizations focused their attention on the large-scale use of children as domestic laborers and the complex networks of traffic feeding into the domestic labor pool. In response to these initiatives and as part of a regional collaboration to combat child trafficking and child abuse, new legislation has been adopted in Ghana. Benjamin N. Lawrance, Assistant Professor of African History at the University of California, Davis, examines the relationship between campaigning and legislation dealing with the violence against domestic child laborers. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- The Boston Massacre and the Trial of Slavery
Jill Lepore, Professor of History at Harvard and author of New York Burning, A is for American, and the Bancroft prize-winning The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, will argue that more starkly than any other single episode in an era of momentous events, the 1770 Boston Massacre reveals the anguish of independence; the fitfulness of the move from resistance to revolution; and the crucial role of slavery, and of slaves, in making that move possible. Labyrinth Books, 290 York St.
- Democrats, Republicans and the Post-Emancipation West-Indies
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Boston College and GLC fellow Edward B. Rugemer presents the final chapter of his forthcoming book, The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (LSU, Fall 2007). This paper will examine representations of the post-emancipation West Indies in the political press on the eve of Civil War. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- The "Negro Fever," the South, and the Ignoble Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade
Walter Johnson, Professor of History at Harvard University, examines the effort made by a group of Mississippi Valley slaveholders and polemicists to re-open the Atlantic slave trade as a way to reflect on the globalist vision of defenders of slavery in the late 1850s. Linsly-Chittenden, Room 211, 63 High Street.
- Changing Gold for Slaves: Rio de Janeiro's Traders at the Bight of Benin, Eighteenth Century
Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil and GLC fellow Mariza de Carvalho Soares bridges her research about the Mahi people from the hinterland of Benin, which formed the basis of her book Devotos da Cor (The Devoted of Color), with her current research about the routes of the slave trade between Rio de Janeiro and the Bight of Benin during the Age of Gold in Brazil (1695-1740). This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition
The Third Annual David Brion Davis Lecture Series on the History of Slavery, Race, and Their Legacies
P. David Richardson, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, presents a three-part lecture series commemorating the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the slave trade.
Monday, March 5: "Growth and Expansion of the British Slave Trade, 1660-1807," Beinecke Mezzanine, Wall and High Streets.
Tuesday, March 6: "African Agency in the Slave Trade," Linsly-Chittenden, Room 211, 63 High Street.
Wednesday, March 7: "Ideology, Politics, and British Abolitionism, c.1780-1807," Linsly-Chittenden, Room 211, 63 High Street.
- A Colony of Citizens Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Laurent Dubois, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, discusses his 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, which positions events in Guadeloupe within a larger framework and suggests the complex fruits of emancipation in the French Caribbean and the Atlantic World. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street.
- Reconstructing Race: Asian and African Americans in the Age of Emancipation
Moon-Ho Jung, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, situates the recruitment and exclusion of Chinese workers within broader struggles over race and slavery, and challenges traditional narratives of emancipation and immigration. Jung's lecture suggests that linking Asian American and African American histories can reveal radical possibilities in interpreting U.S. history and society. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119a, 320 York Street.
- Bartow Black and the Heritage of Reconstruction
During and following the period of Reconstruction African Americans reacted to and remembered the events of the "revolution gone backward" in various ways. Shawn Alexander, Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow in the Department of History, will examine the memory of Reconstruction in African American social and political thought during the Age of Jim Crow and highlight how that memory informed their varied responses to the development of segregation. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Luce Hall, Room 102, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- Rural Free Black Society from the Age of Jefferson through the Civil War
Ellen Eslinger, postdoctoral fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, presents a study of antebellum free blacks set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a prosperous region of the upper South, and provides a rural counter-weight to numerous studies of free blacks in Southern cities. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
2006
- Trunk Lines, Land Lines, and Local Exchanges: Operationalizing the "Grapevine Telegraph"
Most of us have heard about the grapevine telegraph. Some of us sing about it. Few of us though, know how an inherently secretive system actually worked, especially in the hands of slaves. Picking up where studies of black maritime workers leave off — seaside wharves and riverside quays — Susan O'Donovan, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies, draws on the records of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, runaway ads, and jailors' notices to map those patterns of travel that eventually connected Norfolk to New Orleans, ports to plantations, and America's slaves to one another. The McDougal Center, Room 119a, 320 York Street.
- Performing Freedom in Antebellum New York: The New York African Free School
Online Paper
The New York African Free School was one of the first institutions to address the questions raised by the prospect of slavery's end in New York City. As part of their education, young black students at the school literally performed freedom on a stage, for a mixed race audience. Anna Mae Duane, assistant professor at UConn, will examine the records of these performed skits, poems, and essays to explore how the students imagined their own roles as free people, and how those roles were mediated by the complex mix of benevolence and condescension that underwrote their education. Luce Hall, Room 203. 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- Slavery & Public History: An International Symposium
The Gilder Lehrman Center's Eighth Annual International Conference. Thursday, November 2 at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall St. Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4 at the Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
- "Sufficient Intelligence": Testimonies of African Americans in the Era of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Filmmaker Peter Almond discusses first-hand accounts of the lived experiences of African Americans following the Civil War. Luce Hall, Room 103. 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- How Should We Remember the Slave Trade?: 2007 and Public History
Lecture by James Walvin, Professor of Modern British Social History and the History of Black Slavery at the University of York. Next year marks the bi-centenary of the British abolition of the slave trade. It will be commemorated by a host of institutions — from Parliament to local historic sites. But what should be remembered? The Act of 1807 — or the history of British slaving before 1807? How should we recall the more than 100 Acts of Parliament passed in the century before 1807, which encouraged and made possible the British slave trade? Walvin explores how this 200th anniversary in 2007 provides the opportunity to reflect more critically on British history in the long-18th century. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- GLC Graduate Fellows Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
Join Yale graduate students Sonali Chakravarti, Brandi Hughes, and Charlotte Walker, recipients of the GLC 2006 Summer Research Fellowships, as they discuss their summer research projects. Projects discussed will cover truth commissions, African America and the missionary movement through West Africa, and slavery in colonial Cameroon. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- A Celebration with David Brion Davis
The Slifka Center hosts a reception and discussion with David Brion Davis, founding director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, about his book Inhuman Bondage:The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Gilder Lehrman Center director David Blight will interview Professor Davis followed by a book signing and reception. Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street. Sponsored by the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.
- Fighting the East African Slave Trade: Humanitarian Crusades and Imperialist Pretexts
Lecture by Robert Harms, Professor of History at Yale. In the late 19th century British Humanitarians, French Catholics, and King Leopold II of Belgium all joined the campaign against the Muslim-dominated slave trade in East Africa, but they did so for very different reasons and operated from very different motives. Harms will explore the issue of whether the work of the humanitarians unwittingly set the stage for a brutal form of European colonialism in Africa. This lecture is part of the Council on African Studies Lecture Series on Historical Narratives and is co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and the MacMillan Center. Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- Visions of Rebellion: The Black Left in the 1930s
Paul Gardullo, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, will discuss his work on the Black Left in 1930s America and their attempts to provide new conceptions of memories of and representations of slavery through arts, culture and political organizing in the period leading up to World War II. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- Sold as Chickens and Goats: Modern Slavery in Colonial Mozambique
Eric Allina-Pisano, Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, will discuss the development of a forced labor regime in Mozambique and show how Africans defended their sovereignty against colonial exploitation. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, a Book Talk and Discussion
Join author Debby Applegate as she discusses her recently published work. Details available at http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/events_detail.aspx?evtid=160. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street.
- Racial Ideologies: A Comparative Panel Discussion on 19th-Century American Pro-Slavery Arguments and 20th-Century Nazi Propaganda
Online Papers:
Jeffrey Herf | Michael O'Brien
Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History at the University of Maryland at College Park, and Michael O'Brien, Professor of American Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, will examine the relationships between the defense of slavery in the 19th-century United States and the Nazi propaganda in Germany during the 20th century. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street.
- Lucretia Mott, the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
Carol Faulkner, Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo and Postdoctoral Associate at the Gilder Lehrman Center, discusses the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention as the birthplace of the women's rights movement. Looking at Lucretia Mott's too seldom used diary, Faulkner tries to recover the true history of the WASC and demonstrates how Mott saw the meeting not only as a contest over women's rights, but as part of a broader struggle over religious orthodoxy, moral authority, and individual rights. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. 12:00 pm. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- The Global Garrison: America's Premier Radical Abolitionist and the International Response
Richard J. Blackett, the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, traces Garrison's influence on the abolition movement in the thirty years before the Civil War, from his first visit to counter the effort to win support for colonizing African Americans in Liberia, down to his controversial decision to throw his support to the Union in 1861. This lecture is part of the David Brion Davis Second Annual Lecture Series: "William Lloyd Garrison at 200: The Meanings and Legacies of American Abolitionism." 4:15 pm. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211. 320 York Street. Reception to follow.
- William Lloyd Garrison and Emancipatory Feminism in 19th-Century America
Lois Brown, Associate Professor of English at Mt. Holyoke College, considers the significant events, unexpected opportunities, and moral crises that prompted William Lloyd Garrison to enter the dynamic and enterprising activist worlds of antebellum women. She will examine the evolution of his feminist ideologies, assess his investments in traditional American domesticity, and consider how his feminocentric political work shaped indelibly his abolitionist politics. This lecture is part of the David Brion Davis Second Annual Lecture Series: "William Lloyd Garrison at 200: The Meanings and Legacies of American Abolitionism." 4:15 pm. Linsly-Chittenden Room 101, 63 High Street. Reception to follow.
- Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center discusses his latest book published by Oxford University Press. Reception to follow. 5:00 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street.
- Slavery and Social Hierarchy in Korea: Comparisons with the American Case
Kyung Moon Hwang, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History at Yale University, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California, discusses the striking parallels and important contrasts between Korea and the United States in the relationship between systematic chattel slavery, sexual domination, and modern social transformation. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. 12:00 pm. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
- Shifting the Grounds: Slaving, Agency, and Culture in the African Diaspora (Angola)
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia and Postdoctoral Associate the Gilder Lehrman Center, uses micro-history tools to analyze how slaving and African agency played out on a local level in Angola - the largest supplier of slaves to the Atlantic during the history of the slave trade. Ferreira also uses the Angolan case to discuss current models of analysis of the African Diaspora. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. 12:00 p.m. Luce Hall, Room 103. 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- Putting Politics Back In: Rethinking the Problem of Political Abolitionism
Bruce Laurie, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, revisits the charge that political abolitionists were either too moralistic to be effective in politics or too racist to be a serious abolitionist force. He demonstrates that in Massachusetts the Liberty Party was quite sophisticated and that the Free Soilers supported a form of racial equality while also shows that the Garrisonians underestimated political abolitionism. This lecture is part of the David Brion Davis Second Annual Lecture Series: "William Lloyd Garrison at 200: The Meanings and Legacies of American Abolitionism." 4:15 pm. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. Reception to follow.
- Passing Strange: The Secret Life of Clarence King
Martha A. Sandweiss, Research Affiliate at the Gilder Lehrman Center, discusses the prominent scientist, explorer and writer, Clarence King, who concealed his own true social and racial identity in order to pass as a black man in late nineteenth century New York. For thirteen years, he lived a double life, living as a white man in the city's elite literary and scientific circles, and passing as a black Pullman porter with his African-American wife to whom he never revealed his true name or identity. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. 12:00 p.m. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 401. 320 York Street.
- After the Slavers: Law, Liberation, and Captive-Taking in the New Mexican Borderlands
Robert Castro, Post-doctoral Associate at the Gilder Lehrman Center and Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at Cal State Fullerton, explores the Congressional decision to abolish the captive-taking customs of Indian-Mestizo servitude. Comparing these customs to slavery in the U.S. South., Castro argues that captive-taking customs were complicated and unstable institutions, but like slavery in the U.S. South, these custodial relationships were ultimately based on dominance and subordination, regardless of kinship practices. Castro's study highlights first-hand accounts of the Indian-Mestizo slave trade as it appeared to several witnesses at the time. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. 12:00 p.m. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119B. 320 York Street.
2005
- A Reading and Discussion of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
Tommie Shelby, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University reads from his new book, which argues that black political solidarity is a much needed emancipatory tool. Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street.
- Repoliticizing the Abolitionists in the Age of Fundamentalist Activism
Lecture by James Brewer Stewart, the James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. The David Brion Davis Second Annual Lecture Series: "William Lloyd Garrison at 200: The Meanings and Legacies of American Abolitionism." 4:15 pm, Beinecke Library Mezzanine, High and Wall Streets, Yale University.
- Murder in the Sunflower State: The Lynching of Fred Alexander and the Development of the Kansas Afro-American Council
Shawn Alexander, the Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow at Yale University's Department of History, will discuss the creation of the Afro-American League and its successor the Afro-American Council, the first national Civil Rights organization. He will use the Kansas Council and its activities around the Alexander murder as a case study to demonstrate the type of activities the organization was involved in at the turn of the century. Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Luce Hall Room 103.
- In the Quest of a Color-Blind America: The Life and Times of Albion Tourgee
Lecture by Mark Elliott, Assistant Professor of History at Wagner College and Visiting Scholar at the Gilder Lehrman Center, on his work on Albion Tourgee, a nineteenth-century lawyer, novelist, and civil rights leader. Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. RSVP Required.
Monday, November 14, 2005. 4:15 p.m.- A Reading and Discussion of the New Epic Poem "Amistad"
Elizabeth Alexander, Associate Professor in African-American Studies at Yale University reads from her epic poem "Amistad." Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- AIDS, Stigmatization, and Culture in Haiti: Implementing Antiretroviral Therapies in a Context of Medical Pluralism
Lecture by Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology at Connecticut College and Research Affiliate with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. This lecture is part of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Fall Lecture Series. Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
- Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide, & Caste
7th Annual International Conference. Co-sponsored with the Brown University Committee on Slavery and Justice. Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street.
- Honoring the Dishonorable: Calhoun College at Yale University
Lecture by Yale Ph.D. candidate Owen Williams discussing the reason why Yale named a college for the most prominent defender of slavery, John C. Calhoun, in 1933, almost seventy years after the abolition of slavery, and proposing a solution to an historical problem. Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. RSVP Required.
- Writing Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Jean Fagan Yellin, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Pace, discusses her 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book Harriet Jacobs: A Life, which traces the experiences of Harriet Jacobs, who spent 29 years as a slave. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York Street.
- Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, will speak on his forthcoming book: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
- Alternative Parents: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings
A lecture by Clarence Walker, Professor of History at University of California, Davis. Co-sponsored with the Yale University History Department.
August 1-5, 2005- Teaching Colonial and Revolutionary-Era American History
Summer Professional Development Institute for Middle and High School Teachers in the Stratford Public School System
- Penn Center Gullah Studies Institute, St. Helena Island, South Carolina
The Penn Center Gullah Studies Institute presents a Summer cultural program for K-12 teachers, pre-service teachers and interested individuals. The program utilizes history, culture and the arts. [ Program and Registration Information (PDF File) ]
June 24, 2005- Information Wanted: Notices for Lost Family Members in the Christian Recorder
Professional Development Workshop for teachers in the Danbury Public School System
June 22-26, 2005- TST Education Project Summer Institute
Sponsorship of Metropolitan Learning Center Teachers to attend the UNESCO TST Education Project Summer Institute, "In the Land of the Blues: Freedom Struggles in the Delta," at the University of Memphis.
June 4, 2005- Desegregation and the Bill of Rights
Professional Development Workshop for High School Teachers in the New Haven Public School System focusing on primary documents related to the Prudence Crandall case in Canterbury, Connecticut.
April 26, 2005- The Problem of Slavery in Public History
Featuring James O. Horton, Diane Swann-Wright, Dwight Pitcaithley, and Rex Ellis.
April 25, 2005- Black Soldiers and the Politics of Emancipation in Early Republican Argentina
Lecture by Seth Meisel, Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series.
April 13, 2005- "Sound As a Dollar": The Paperwork of Slavery
Professional Development Workshop for the Connecticut Regional Education Center (CREC) Teaching American History Project for Hartford Area Middle and High School Social Studies Teachers.
April 9, 2005- Underground Railroad Travelers: Research and Family History
A symposium for scholars and family historians, co-sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University.
February 7-9, 2005 - The Problem of Slavery as History
A three-part lecture series given by Joseph Miller, the T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia. Monday, February 7: lecture and opening reception at the Beinecke Mezzanine, "The Problem of Slavery as History." Tuesday, February 8: lecture at Luce Hall Auditorium, "History and Slavery as Problems in Africa." Wednesday, February 9: lecture at Luce Hall Auditorium, "Problematizing Slavery in the Americas as History."
January 31, 2005- Mixed Legacies: The Jay Family, Revolution, and Slavery
Lecture by David Gellman, Professor of History at DePauw University. Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series.
2004
December 13, 2004- The Experience of Gardens in the Black Diaspora: The Question of Origins
Lecture by Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology at Connecticut College. Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series.
December 9, 2004- Can Slaves Practice Politics?: Writing the Political History of Slaves and Freedpeople in the American South
Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning book, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Harvard University Press, 2003).[ FLYER ]
November 19, 2004- Slavery and New Haven Walking Tour
A pilot project featuring Amistad-related historic sites in New Haven for 110 8th grade students from the Metropolitan Learning Center Interdistrict Magnet School for Global International Studies
November 17, 2004- Bunce Island: Slave Castle on the Rice Coast
Lecture by Joseph Opala, who has spent 30 years researching the history, oral history, and archaeology of Bunce Island, an 18th century British slave castle in Sierra Leone (West Africa). [ BUNCE ISLAND INFO FLYER ]
October 22-23, 2004- From Chattel Slavery to State Servitude
The Sixth Annual International conference, From Chattel Slavery to State Servitude. Participants will include: Suzanne Miers, David B. Davis, Michael Allen, Amy Chua, Kevin Bales, David Oshinsky, Rebecca Scott, Jonathan Holloway, Francis Deng, Jeff Ferguson, and Lamin Sanneh. [ SCHEDULE ]
October 21, 2004- Africa and World History
Lecture by Professor Joseph C. Miller, T. Carey Johnson Professor of History at the University of Virginia; Past President of the American Historical Association; President-elect of the African Studies Association. Co-sponsored by the Council on African Studies and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
October 11, 2004- THE SOUNDS OF SLAVERY: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech
Shane White, professor of history at the University of Sydney, Australia discusses his forthcoming book The Sounds Of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech, due out in Spring 2005 from Beacon Press.
September 28, 2004- The National Summit on Bunce Island
Held in Washington, D.C., and co-sponsored by Bunce Island Preservation, Inc., George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, the Amistad Committee of New Haven, and the GLC.
July 26-30, 2004- American Slavery and Abolition
A Summer professional development institute for middle and high school teachers in the Stratford Public School System
July 6-13, 2004- Portraits of Brazil
Summer Institute for Educators, PIER, co-sponsor GLC and Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.
April 28, 2004- The Bitter Chain of Slavery: Reflections on Slavery in Ancient Rome
Keith Bradley, Professor of Classics, Concurrent Professor of History, and Chair of the Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
April 19, 2004- Commemorating the Bicentenary of Abolition: A Vision for a Wilberforce Institute
A lecture by Professor P. David Richardson.
April 15, 2004- Conceptions of Race & Beauty in Contemporary Brazil
Teachers workshop, co-sponsor with Latin American and Iberian Studies Council
April 15, 2004- "Negro President": Thomas Jefferson and Slave Power
Garry Wills, the distinguished historian, critic, and Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses his most recent book.
April 14, 2004- Washington, Hamilton and Slavery
Presentation by Henry Wiencek and Paul Finkelman. Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119.
February 26, 2004- Fifth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Seymour Drescher, for The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation; James F. Brooks, for Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
February 6-7, 2004- 1834 Lane Seminary Antislavery Debates: A historical recreation presented in four parts. Part Three: "The Oberlin Commitment to Racial Egalitarianism
At Oberlin College
2003
December 10, 2003- The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Dr. Malick Ghachem, Gilder Lehrman Center Visiting Fellow. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
November 7-8, 2003- Collective Degradation: Slavery and the Construction of Race
GLC fifth international conference, to be held at Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave, For more information and to register, click here.
October 22, 2003- The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Lecture by Professor Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology.
October 9, 2003- Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660-1810
James Basker, Professor of English at Barnard College and President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will speak about his book.
October 6, 2003- Lane Debates at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
A reenactment of the Lane Seminary Trustees meeting of October 6, 1834 and the Lane student walkout of October 15, 1834, at the Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 30-31, 2003- Historic Reenactment of the Lane Slavery Debates of 1834
Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition will join with the Beecher House Society and top scholars from around the country to present a historic reenactment of the Lane Slavery Debates of 1834. The two-day event, featuring nationally-noted scholars and authors, will be presented at the Torrington Campus of the University of Connecticut. ( more... >> )
April 29, 2003- Slavery and Abolition in Puerto Rico
A teachers' workshop co-sponsored with PIER for Latin American Studies. The keynote speaker was Chris Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University and author of Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874.
April 10, 2003- The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor vs. Slavery in British Emancipation
Book Talk by Seymour Drescher, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh.
February 27, 2003- The Fourth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Robert Harms, for The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
February 4, 2003- Interpreting Denmark Vesey's Revolt: What's Hidden in the Transcripts?
Michael Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne College, James C. Scott, Yale University Chair, Jill Lepore, Boston University.
January 23, 2003- Complicity: How Connecticut Chained Itself to Slavery
A workshop for K-12 educators on the using the Hartford Courant's Northeast special issue, "Complicity: How Connecticut Chained Itself to Slavery" in the classroom.
2002
December 18, 2002- The Intellectuals and Slavery
Lecture by Professor Peter Field, University of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand.
December 16, 2002- The Problem of a Hyperpoliticized Education: South Carolina College and the Origins of Secession
Professor Michael Sugrue, Princeton University.
December 6-7, 2002- Unshackled Spaces: Fugitives from Slavery and Maroon Communities in the Americas
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition's Annual Conference. [ View Conference Papers ]
November 22, 2002 - Thematic Identities and Sectional Divergences
Albert Yee, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Post-Doctoral Associate, Gilder Lehrman Center.
November 12, 2002- The Civil War and American Memory
David Brion Davis delivered the keynote address and Robert P. Forbes chaired the opening panel at the Library of Congress symposium, "The Civil War and American Memory," held in conjunction with the release of The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (Simon & Schuster, 2002).
September 26-28, 2002- Yale, New Haven, and American Slavery
A Conference Co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and the Yale Law School.
July 25-28, 2002- Slavery and Freedom in New England
A national meeting of the United States Component, UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project. This meeting marks the first full assembly of the five U.S. - sponsor institutions with their K-12 education partners from across the country. [Download Program].
July 8-19, 2002- Teaching about Latin America: Focus on the Caribbean
A two-week summer institute for K-12 and post secondary educators
June 15, 2002- Friendship and Freedom
A Workshop on the Transatlantic Links Between Connecticut and Sierra Leone, sponsored the Freetown, Sierra Leone-New Haven Sister Cities Program and The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Download Program [PDF File].
May 7-9, 2002- Freedom, Race, and Bondage
A Conference in Honor of David Brion Davis. Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies. Yale University, New Haven.
April 16, 2002- Black Acts & Blue Laws: Yale, New Haven and Black Education, 1831-1841
Forum, with Professor Julie Winch, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Hilary Moss, Brandeis University
March 22, 2002- The Road to Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico
Juan R. Gonzalez Mendoza, GLC Post Doctoral Fellow. Flechas, Inc and Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs
March 21, 2002- The Underground Railroad: A First Person Perspective
A teacher roundtable discussion featuring Tony Cohen, Director of the Menare Foundation and Underground Railroad Scholar and Re-enactor. Mr. Cohen, the descendant of escaped slaves, is renowned for his pioneering and exciting work in retracing the routes of the Underground Railroad on foot from Alabama to Canada.
February 28, 2002- Third Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
David Blight, for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
February 12, 2002- Tangled Roots: Exploring Links Between African American and Irish American History
Mary Anne Matthews, An after-school workshop for K-12 educators
February 11, 2002- The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990
A lecture with Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize Laureate. This event is being sponsored by The Gilder Lehrman Center, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Yale Department of History, the Yale Department of Economics, the Economic History Workshop, and the Economic Growth Center.
January 31, 2002- Defining Black Resistance in Revolutionary Massachusetts and South Carolina
Emily Blanck of Emory University. Followed by "Slavery and the American Revolution," a Teachers' Roundtable Discussion.
2001
December 12, 2001- Critical Issues in Slavery and Emancipation in the 19th Century
A teacher roundtable discussion with Jeff Kerr-Ritchie
December 11, 2001- How is it Possible? Slavery in 21st Century America—African American Farmworkers, Involuntary Servitude, and the Burden of History
Lecture by Professor Daniel Rothenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 5, 2001- Pan-Africanists in the Streets: West India Emancipation Celebrations in North America, 1834-62
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Senior Fellow.
November 27, 2001- Race and Reunion
A lecture by David Blight, whose celebrated new study, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, has won the third annual $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for the year's most outstanding book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.
November 19, 2001- Secession as Counterrevolution: Slavery and the Ideology of Southern Nationalism
A lecture by Manisha Sinha.
November 13, 2001- My Mother was a Slave But Not Me: Oral Histories in Brazil
A brown bag lecture by Ana Rios.
October 25-28, 2001- Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Antislavery and Women's Rights
The third annual Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference.
September 13-15, 2001- James Hillhouse Commemorative Events
Assembly at Hillhouse High School, New Haven. Elm tree planting ceremony at Hillhouse, Forum "James Hillhouse and His World" James Hillhouse's Gravesite Dedication as part of the Freedom Trail, Grove Street Cemetery; Reception at McDougal Center.
April 25, 2001- Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons: A Woman Warrior Against Slavery
Lecture by Karla Gottlieb
April 17, 2001- Slave, Subject, Citizen: Gender and the Transition to Freedom in the French Caribbean, 1635-1848
Professor Sue Peabody, of Washington State University in Vancouver and a Senior Fellow of the Gilder Lehrman Center, is the author of the acclaimed study, There are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime.
April 2, 2001- Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Soskis, a writer for the New Republic, will give a talk on "Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland." Mr. Soskis, ES '98, won the Wrexham Prize for the best senior essay in the field of the humanities.
March 27, 2001- Bishop Henry Turner and the Emancipation Moment in Washington, D.C.
A lecture by Edward Daniels, Yale College '00. Mr. Daniels' talk is based on his award-winning Yale senior essay.
February 27, 2001- An American Amistad: The Creole Case of 1841
Lecture by Professor Walter Johnson, New York University, who is the author of Soul to Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
February 13, 2001- Growing Up In the Age of Emancipation: African American Boys and the Reconstruction of Self
A lecture by Peter Bardaglio, Goucher College. Professor Bardaglio is the author of Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South.
February 8, 2001- Slavery in New York: A Forum in Honor of Black History Month.
A program of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College & the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, featuring David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center and Sterling Professor of History, Yale University; Clarence Taylor, Weissman Visiting Professor of History, Baruch College; Graham Hodges, Colgate University, author of Root and Branch, African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863; Walter Johnson, New York University, author of Soul by Soul: Life in the Antebellum Slave Market; Martia Goodson, Baruch College, editor of Chronicles of Faith: The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson; and Catherine Clinton, Weissman Visiting Professor of History, Baruch College.
January 29, 2001- Muslim Literacy and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum United States
Lecture by Sylviane Diouf of New York University, author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Co-sponsored with the University Chaplain's Office, the African American Studies Department, the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale and the Muhammad Islamic Center.
January 22, 2001- Forum on Genocide and Slavery
Co-sponsored by the Gilder-Lehrman Center and the Comparative Genocide Program at Yale. Benedict Kiernan, director of the Genocide Program, will talk on the Australian Aborigines. Seymour Drescher, from the history department at the University of Pittsburgh, will speak about comparisons between the Nazi Holocaust and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Kevin McBride, Director of Research at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, and Crystal Feimster, from the Yale African American Studies department will speak, respectively, on the "Genocide and Enslavement of the Pequot Indians" and "Lynching in the U.S. South after Reconstruction."
2000
November 16-18, 2000- The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the American Civil War
The Gilder Lehrman Center's Second Annual International Conference.
November 9, 2000- Slavery in Sudan Today
John Eibner, Christian Solidarity International, has been described as the "architect of Sudan's Underground Railroad" and has traveled into Sudan more than 20 times in the last five years to document the Sudanese slave trade and liberate hundreds of Africans who have been enslaved by government troops in Sudan's civil war. Co-sponsored with the African Studies Department.
October 24, 2000- Abolitionists, Politics, and Preludes to Emancipation
James Brewer Stewart of Macalester College will speak at the Sterling Library Lecture Hall. Professor Stewart is the author of Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Culture.
October 21, 2000- The Amistad Revolt and African Americans in Connecticut
Screening of "The Amistad Revolt: All We Want is Make Us Free" and "African Americans in Connecticut: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War," accompanied by a panel discussion including documentary film maker Karyl Evans and Yale scholars. This event is part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Open House in celebration of Yale's Tercentennial.
October 19, 2000- "He was Capable of Great Things": William Lanson and the Vagaries of Early Free Black New Haven
Peter Hinks, professor of history at Hamilton College will speak at the Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium.
October 3, 2000- Nat Turner and John Brown: A Forum Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of their Births
Patrick Breen, John Stauffer, and Paul Finkelman, speakers.
September 26, 2000- Second Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
David Eltis, for The Rise of African Slavery in The Americas
April 12, 2000- Slavery and the American Revolution
A lecture by Professor Sylvia Frey, Tulane University.
April 4, 2000- The Debt: What America Owes Blacks
A lecture by Randall Robinson
March 29, 2000- Race and Property Rights after Emancipation
A lecture by Professor Dalton Conley, Yale University.
February 23, 2000- Slavery, Population and the Social Order in Coastal Benin, 17th-19th Centuries
A lecture by Professor Patrick Manning, Northeastern University. Co-sponsored with the Yale African Studies Council.
February 16, 2000- The Travels of Muhammad Gardo Baquaqua, Native of Djougou in the Interior of West Africa, in Africa and the Americas, c. 1830-57
A lecture by Professor Paul Lovejoy, York University. Co-sponsored with the Yale African Studies Council.
February 9, 2000- Slavery and Settlement Rivalry in Southeastern North America
A lecture by Professor Jennifer Baszile, Yale University.
February, 2000- First Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Ira Berlin, for Many Thousands Gone: The first Two Centuries of Slavery in North America; Philip Morgan, for Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
January 12, 2000- The Mask of Obedience: Slave Psychology in the Old South
Lecture by Professor Bertram Wyatt-Brown
1999
December 9, 1999- Forum on Slavery and the Founding Fathers
Speakers include: James O. Horton, The George Washington University; William W. Freehling, University of Kentucky; Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law; and David Waldstreicher, Notre Dame University.
December 3, 1999- American Slavery's Mixed-Race legacy: Histories of Reconciliation
Forum at Baruch College, New York City. Featuring Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family and Henry Wiencek, author of The Hairstons. Co-Sponsored with the Department of History, Baruch College.
November 17, 1999- The Curse of Ham: Sex, Slavery, and Racism: The Secret History of the Sons of Noah
A slide lecture by Professor Benjamin Braude, Department of History, Boston College.
November 10, 1999- Survivors of the Middle Passage: Autobiographical Accounts by Enslaved Africans in British America
A lecture by Professor Jerome Handler, Virginia Historical Commission.
October 22-24, 1999- Domestic Passages: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808-1888
The first annual Gilder Lehrman Center International Conference is on the topic of the internal slave trades within Brazil, the British West Indies, and the United States South. In recent years the Atlantic Slave trade--the infamous "Middle Passage"--has received extensive attention from scholars. However, far less is known about the internal movements of slaves within geographical and political units, even though the total volume of this trade involved millions of involuntary workers. This conference will sketch the broad outlines of this neglected phenomenon, and will acquaint scholars and students of slavery with the key issues and controversies specific to each geographic region.
October 6, 1999- Leonard Bacon and Moderate Antislavery
A lecture by Professor Hugh Davis, Southern Connecticut State University.
September 29, 1999- Slavery in the Ancient World
A lecture by Professor Donald Kagan, Yale University.
September 17-18, 1999- Bantu into Black: Central Africans in the Atlantic Diaspora
An International Conference at Howard University. Co-sponsored with the Department of History, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the Ralph Bunche Center at Howard University.
September 14, 1999- Anticipations of Racism in Early Modern Europe
A lecture by Professor David Brion Davis, Director, The Gilder Lehrman Center.
June 4, 1999- Clowns and Clouds of Destiny: Antietam, Antietam, Antietam
A musical play about emancipation for area fourth graders, written by Ann E. Garrett Robinson and directed by Gregoire Mouning. Co-sponsored with Area Cooperative Educational Services.
May 4, 1999- On DuBois' Encyclopedia Africana
Lecture by Henry Louis Gates, Harvard University.
March 26, 1999- Women's Resistance Under Slavery: Work and Rebellion Among Women Under Slavery in Jamaican, British West Indies, 1655-1834
A mini-conference co-sponsored with Gateway Community College, the Yale Department of African and African American Studies, and the Inner City Newspaper. Featuring Ann Robinson, Professor at Gateway Community College and the first Gateway Scholar of the Gilder Lehrman Center, and Cynthia McLeod, of Suriname.
March 24, 1999- The Freedmen and Southern Society Project
A lecture by Professor Ira Berlin, Department of History, University of Maryland.
March 3, 1999- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Problem of Political Antislavery
Lecture by Professor Peter Field, Tennessee Technical University.
February 12, 1999- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Herrings: The Facts and their Significance
Forum with Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School; Daniel Jordan, Monticello; Peter Onuf, University of Virginia; Drew Gilpin Faust, University of Pennsylvania; and Barbara Oberg, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University.
February 5, 1999- Entrepreneurs of Nationhood: The Roots and the Routes of the Yoruba Nation
A lecture by Professor J. Lorand Matory, Departments of Anthropology and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University. Co-sponsored with Yale African Studies Council.
January 20, 1999- Worlds of the Slave Trade: The Voyage of the Diligent, 173O-1731
A slide lecture by Professor Robert Harms, Department of History and African Studies.
1998
November 15-16, 1998- Inaugural Events
Sermon to be delivered by Professor Howard Jones, University of Alabama, at Battell Chapel, Yale University. Panel on Steven Spielberg's Amistad. Screen of Amistad at Whitney Humanities Center, co-sponsored with Yale Film Study Center. Address by Professor Howard Jones.
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