Dutch New York Histories
Thursday August 3, 2017 @ 6:30pm Dutch rule in New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short in comparison to…
Black New Yorkers
In May or June 1613, Jan Rodrigues, a free sailor from Hispaniola (in what is today the Dominican Republic), who…
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
Pulitzer Prize winner and Lapidus Center Advisor Eric Foner reviews Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the…
2018 Harriet Tubman Prize
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the third edition of the Harriet Tubman…
Passing of Anthony Kaye
With great sorrow, I have to report the passing of Dr. Anthony Kaye. Tony was a dear friend and collaborator of the…
New Tools for the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Lapidus Center Advisor David Eltis, Lapidus Center Fellow Philip Misevich, Lapidus Center presenter Nafees Khan, Daniel Domingues, and Nicholas Radburn…
African Descendants in India
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Let’s stretch it a bit and discover or…
Stained by Slavery: How Craig Wilder exposed higher education’s past
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2017 “In the fall of 2006, Brown University published a landmark report detailing…
Atlantic Slaveries: Native American and African Slavery in New England and the Caribbean
Thursday, April 6, 2017 @ 12pm Linford D. Fisher, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Atlantic Slaveries: Native American and…
Illegal Trade in Human Flesh: Illicit Slave Trading in the Atlantic World, 1833-1867
Thursday, March 9, 2017 @ 12pm Lewis Eliot, PhD Candidate, University of South Carolina. Illegal Trade in Human Flesh: Illicit Slave…