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,…
Nat Turner: Rebel and Prophet
Nat Turner’s Revolt of 1831 in Southampton, Virginia, is both the best known slave rebellion in American history and the…
Queen Nanny
On October 20, the auditorium and an adjacent overflow space were full. Hundreds of people had gathered to view Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon…
Databases : Research Made (Almost) Easy
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. October 9, 2015. As a historian specializing in the transatlantic slave trade and slavery,…