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…
Black Music Month in Argentina and Uruguay
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 @ 6:30pm In celebration of Black Music Month, the Lapidus Center presented the documentary film Tango…
Muslims Were Banned From the Americas As Early as the 16th Century
“Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt…
Titles Acquired in 2016
Titles Acquired in 2016 Ahlert, Regine. La pestilencia más horrible … die Geschichte der indigenen und schwarzen Sklaverei in…
Afro-Iberians in the Spanish Empire, 1500s and 1600s
Thursday, February 23, 2017 @12pm Leo Garofalo, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College. Afro-Iberians as Black European Sailors, Soldiers, Travelers,…