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REMOTE EVENT: Recaptive Shipmate Journeys through the Carceral Spaces of the U.S. Slave Trade Suppression

September 11, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Free

Join the 1619 and Beyond Program and the Deptartment of History for a lecture by Sharla Fett, professor of history and chair of the Department of American Studies at Occidental College.

Fett’s most recent work focuses on the capture of slave ships off the American coast on the eve of the Civil War in the early 1860s. She offers a new view of a heretofore unexamined “middle passage” — the return of these recaptured people to Africa — that included the detention and containment of “liberated”/recaptive Africans in spaces ranging from U.S. jails and forts to ship holds to special “receptacles” used in Liberia.  She will unravel the question about how slavery-based practices of detention continued into suppression procedures for “managing” large numbers of recaptive Africans and how recaptives sought to resist and reclaim those spatial constraints.

To learn more and register, visit the Center for Historical Research (CHR) website. Registration links will be posted on the CHR calendar within six weeks of the event.

If you have questions or require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please indicate contact CHR Director John Brooke. Requests made 10 days prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.


About the 1619 and Beyond Program: In late August 1619 “twenty and odd” Angolans were brought from the West Indies to the Chesapeake Bay on the ship White Lion. Some of these individuals were sold into slavery at Jamestown. 2019 marked the quadricentennial of this arrival of Africans in British North America and the start of a trans-Atlantic slave trade that would continue (legally and illegally) until the Civil War, with profound legacies running to the present.

During this, the second year of our lecture series, The Ohio State University will move from last year’s focus on the slavery era to a year-long program examining the legacies of slavery in American and African American life from the post-emancipation period (after the Civil War) to the present time. This year, the series will feature invited lectures by eminent scholars of the Jim Crow Era, the Modern Civil Rights Movement/Era, and the contemporary issues that continue to reflect a need to address the legacies of centuries of legal, race-based enslavement, segregation and discrimination. The program will also offer film screenings, seminars and Slavery Roundtables. The departments urge students to participate in these events and to take courses dedicated to the history of slavery.

Details

Date:
September 11, 2020
Time:
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7tXFx_rbRg6kCu0UDWxl6Q
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