Lapidus Center Advisor Manisha Sinha on how Harriet Tubman’s story illustrates that “slave resistance rather than bourgeois liberalism lay at the heart…
Monday, October 24. 6:30pm Architects of their Own Liberation: African Americans and the Abolition Movement In her groundbreaking book, The Slave’s Cause:…
The Lapidus Center offers two long-term fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access to the…
This non-exhaustive list contains some of the scholarly works on slavery in the Atlantic World published in 2015. Beck, Jane C. Daisy Turner’s Kin:…
New ideas, enlightening conversations, cutting-edge research, tomorrow’s trends: it’s all here in the Lapidus Center podcast series. Listen to our visiting scholars as…
“Slavery, Universities, Inner Cities” was the theme of a stimulating conversation between Craig S. Wilder, Professor of History at M.I.T. and Davarian Baldwin, Paul…
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. February 3, 2016. The New Year is bringing slavery into the mainstream. Nate Parkers’ The Birth…
Over the course of nearly 20 centuries, millions of East Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and its several seas and adjoining bodies…