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- 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
- 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 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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 Pétré-Grenouilleau, Professor of Modern History, Paris Institute of Political Studies (...cole doctorale, Sciences Po)
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau is a specialist of the history of slavery. His book, Les traites négrières. 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 Vallée au Loups History award for 2005. Prof. Pétré-Grenouilleau is also the author of L’argent de la traite. Milieu négrier, capitalisme et développement: un modèle (1996), Les négoces maritimes français XVIIe-XXe siècle (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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "On the Side of Righteousness": Women, the Church, and Abolition in the U.S.
Stacey Robertson, Chair, History Department, Bradley University
Robertson explores how Unitarian, Baptist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and Methodist women expressed their antislavery sentiment within their churches and how these institutions influenced the manifestation of that sentiment in public life. The talk highlights the repertoire of spiritual and organizational tools with which the church helped women negotiate a powerful voice within the larger movement. Despite its limitations, the church facilitated an increasingly uncompromising and political abolitionism among women. This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring your own lunch, and we’ll provide drinks and dessert.
Location TBD.
- 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.
Location TBD.
- 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 Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
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
- Title TBD
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 TBD, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
- Slavery and the Artistic 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.
Location TBD
- From Social Sin to Social Gospel: The Antislavery Origins of Social Christianity
Mary Clay 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 TBD, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
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