Web Research
These selected sites offer access to free, high-quality databases pertaining to the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery. 1853 Richmond and its…
Underground
On March 8, the Lapidus Center presented the New York City premiere of WGN America’s Underground, which follows a group of courageous men and…
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Archive & Manuscript Collections
Looking for archive and manuscript collections pertaining to the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery? Your search starts here with the collections of the…
Slavery in Prime Time
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. February 3, 2016. The New Year is bringing slavery into the mainstream. Nate Parkers’…
The Harlem Burial Ground
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director of the Lapidus Center. Another African Burial Ground was officially “discovered” in New York City…
Slavery and Memory
The transatlantic slave trade and slavery: memory, memorialization, legacies, contemporary stakes. These are just some of the themes that an exceptional and diverse…
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
Over the course of nearly 20 centuries, millions of East Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and its several seas and…
Titles Acquired in 2015
In 2015, the Schomburg Center acquired these books and library materials on the slave trade, slavery, and antislavery in English, French, Portuguese,…
Slavery in New York : a workshop for teachers
On February 1st, Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University,…