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Black History

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Detail of a printed book shows a portrait frontispiece of Phillis Wheatley sitting at a table with a quill in her hand in the process of writing.

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Phillis Wheatley
1773

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photo of Herman Bennett
Lecture

Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World

image of terrestrial sphere including Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Lecture on the African-European Encounter to Kick Off New JCB Initiative (and 75th Anniversary Meeting)

August 23
Europeans and Africans at the shore

Voyage to the Islands: Hans Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the Caribbean

Spring - Summer 2012
colored map of Saint-Domingue

The Other Revolution: Haiti, 1789-1804

Winter - Spring 2014
a Mohawk man teaches children in a schoolhouse

Controlling Colonial Impressions

May-October 2019
tara Bynum looking down at a book
Meet a JCB Fellow

Tara A. Bynum, Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow

February 15
Jody Benjamin, assistant professor of history at the university of California, riverside and ruth and Lincoln ekstrom fellow at the JCB
Meet a JCB Fellow

Meet our 1,000th Fellow: Jody Benjamin, Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow

August 10

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Imaginary Geographies

Business, Trade, and Economic History