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News

LAUNCH EVENT Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

  On Tuesday, February 16th, 7-8:30 pm, join us for the launch of Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery &…

 
Conferences

CFP: 2021 Lapidus Center Conference (Virtual)

CALL FOR PAPERS   2021 LAPIDUS CENTER CONFERENCE Pandemic Legacies:  Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and…

 
Harriet Tubman Prize

ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS: 2021 Harriet Tubman Prize

2021 Harriet Tubman Prize   The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the…

 
Fellowships

NOW OPEN: 2021-2022 Lapidus Center Fellowship Competition

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce that the 2021-2022 Fellowship Competition is…

 
Harriet Tubman Prize

2020 Harriet Tubman Prize Winner!

The Schomburg Center Announces the Winner of the Lapidus Center’s 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize   Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, author…

 
Upcoming Programs

October 8: Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, A Virtual Conversation

Upcoming Program: Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Thursday, October 8, 6:30 pm The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic…

 
Harriet Tubman Prize

2020 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists

The Schomburg Center Announces Finalists for the Lapidus Center’s 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize   August 5, 2020—The Lapidus Center for…

 
Harriet Tubman Prize

[Closed]Accepting Nominations: 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize

2020 Harriet Tubman Prize The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the opening…

 
Fellowships

*CLOSED* Accepting Applications: 2020-2021 Lapidus Center Fellowships

The 2020-2021 Lapidus Center Fellowship Competition Is Open! * Long-Term Fellowships The Lapidus Center offers up to two six-month fellowships to…

 
Harriet Tubman Prize

2019 Harriet Tubman Prize Winner: Kevin Dawson’s Undercurrents of Power

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is delighted to…

 
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Our Mission

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery—funded by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New York Public Library—is the only facility of its kind based in a public research library.

The initial gift also included 400 rare items of printed material, making the Schomburg Center home to one of the world’s premier collections of slavery material. Sid Lapidus continues to donate items as he acquires them.

The Center's mission is to generate and disseminate scholarly knowledge on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery pertaining to the Atlantic World. The Center supports the work of researchers with long-term and short-term fellowships. Given the centrality of Atlantic slavery to the making of the modern world, the Lapidus fellowships ensure that slavery studies are a cornerstone of the Schomburg Center’s broader research community.

To raise awareness and historical literacy, the Lapidus Center engages the public with a variety of programs, an annual nonfiction prize, exhibitions, conferences, and partnerships with local, national, and international institutions.

Dr. Michelle Commander
Associate Director and Curator

Council of Advisors

Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University

James G. Basker, Barnard College

David W. Blight, Yale University

Christopher L. Brown, Columbia University

Vincent Brown, Harvard University

Laurent M. Dubois, Duke University

David Eltis, Emory University

Eric Foner, Columbia University

Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University

Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University

Linda Heywood, Boston University

Sid Lapidus, Funding Collector

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Harvard University

Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut

Stephanie Smallwood, University of Washington

Craig S. Wilder, M.I.T.

Sean Wilentz, Princeton

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