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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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Engraving showing whale fishery
Fellow's Talk

Baleação e Escravidão: Conexões Atlânticas entre New England, África e Brasil. Séculos XVIII e XIX (in Portuguese)

An image showing a women in chains knelling on the shore
Fellow's Talk

Abolitionist Imperialism in the Archives. Or, How to Prove Racism in Anti-Slavery

A group of men dressed in military uniform sit around a table, surrounded by soldiers carrying muskets who stand behind a white prisoner. One man is writing on a piece of parchment on the table.
Fellow's Talk

The Revolutionary Intellectuals of the Kingdom of Henry Christophe (1811-1820)

Portrait of Graman Quacy
Fellow's Talk

Studying Absence: Archival Fragments and Interdisciplinary Methods in the History of Medicine in the Atlantic Slave Trade

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, 2019
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

See Also

Mohawk

19th Century