Monday April 24, 2025 @ 6:30pm The first known transatlantic slaving voyages sailing directly from Africa brought captives to the Spanish Caribbean as early as the 1520s; by the…
Past Programs
Thursday, March 30, 2025 @ 6:30pm How the new taste for food (dates) and fashion (pearls) in the West led to the enslavement of East Africans in…
Women’s History Month Program Tuesday, March 7, 2025 @ 6:30pm In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes,…
Monday December 12 @ 6:30pm Winner of the 2016 Harriet Tubman Prize Aisha K. Finch was in conversation with Herman Bennett about her book Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera…
Wednesday December 7 @ 6:30pm The Lapidus Center presented an exciting program that mixed history and music, Africa and the Americas, New Orleans and Haiti around an instrument that…
Thursday, November 3rd @ 12:00pm On November 3, 2016, we held the second edition of our newest series, “Lapidus Center Talks @ Noon: Antislavery Politics in New York During…
Wednesday, November 9. 6:30pm On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the African Burial Ground (ABG), sociologist Alondra Nelson, biologist Fatimah Jackson, anthropologists…
In her groundbreaking book, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, documents the centrality of…
Relations between African Americans and Native Americans have been complex. While some nations enslaved black men and women; others welcomed runaways in their villages and towns. African Americans were integrated into and…
Dred Scott, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, and Jeffrey Brace are well-known African Americans who suffered under and fought against slavery. To explore the lives, struggles, and legacies of these extraordinary men who…