Slavery and Its Legacies

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Slavery and Its Legacies – Abigail Cooper on the Movements of Black Refugees in the Civil War Era Jul 17, 2017

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Thomas Thurston spoke with Abigail Cooper, an Assistant Professor in History at Brandeis University and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about her work examining Civil War refugee or contraband camps across the South. Her talk traces the migrations and settlement patterns of black refugees while elucidating the cross-cultural encounters that took place in the camps

Slavery and Its Legacies – Wendy S. Hesford on “Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security” Jun 16, 2017

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In this episode, GLC Modern Slavery Fellow, Wendy S. Hesford discusses a chapter titled "Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security" from her book-in-progress. Hesford discusses the confluence of the discourses on sex slavery, human trafficking, and terrorism in US media representations and documentation of the Islamic State's enslavement of Yazidi women and girls and, more broadly, the gendering of terror and rescue in the international human rights imaginary.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Wendell Adjetey on Draft Resisters, the Cold War Underground Railroad and the Enduring Myth of Canada Jun 02, 2017

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In this episode Yale PhD candidate Wendell Adjetey discusses how US draft resisters in the 1960s and 1970s, especially African Americans, employed the myth of Canada as the Promised Land and the rhetorical use of the Underground Railroad.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Angela Alonso on the Brazilian Abolitionist Movement May 19, 2017

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In this episode Angela Alonso, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, argues that the campaign for the abolition of slavery was the first national social movement and that its success relied on the building of national networks and contacts with the international abolitionist movement.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Alejandro E. Gomez on Antislavery Sentiments in the Spanish Atlantic May 05, 2017

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In this episode Marcela Echeverri, an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, spoke with Alejandro E. Gomez, Maitre de conferences of Latin American History at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and a fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about his research on the socio-racial perceptions of individuals within the Spanish Atlantic who advocated in favor of or against slavery, the slave trade and/or discrimination of free coloreds in the long 19th century.

Slavery and Its Legacies – James Scott – A Deep History of the Earliest States Part 2 Apr 21, 2017

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In part 2 of this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This presentation was recorded at Yale University on April 13th, 2017.

Slavery and Its Legacies – James Scott – A Deep History of the Earliest States Part 1 Apr 21, 2017

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In part 1 of this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This presentation was recorded at Yale University on April 13th, 2017.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Garnette Cadogan Apr 07, 2017

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In this episode Garnette Cadogan, editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, reads his essay "Walking While Black", originally published in Freeman's, a literary magazine.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Jim Walvin Mar 24, 2017

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In this episode James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York, discusses how traces of slavery are often overlooked in the material culture we value, from porcelain sugar bowls to mahogany tables.

Slavery and Its Legacies – Christienna Fryar Mar 10, 2017

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In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Christienna Fryar, an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Buffalo State and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, on post-emancipation Jamaica, an era that scholars of British imperial history have defined as the three decades between full freedom in the 1830s and the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865. Professor Fryer uses a series of particular disasters on the island to examine the British colonial administrationâ€™s response to key moments in the history of post-emancipation Jamaica.

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