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,…
European Powers, Islamic Movements, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
In the 18th century, Senegambia was bitterly contested for slave-trading purposes by France and Great Britain. But a third power,…
Podcasts
New ideas, enlightening conversations, cutting-edge research, tomorrow’s trends: it’s all here in the Lapidus Center podcast series. Listen to our visiting…
New Lapidus Donations
The Lapidus collection is continuously growing. In addition to his first 2014 gift of over 400 rare books and documents,…
Lapidus Center Fellows
The Lapidus Center Fellowships are part of the Scholars-in-Residence Program, housed in the Scholars Center. The program encourages research and writing…
New York City’s Slave Market
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. June 29, 2015. On June 27, a plaque marking the site of New York…
Remembering the Women of Slavery
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. March 27, 2015. Since my graduate school days in Paris, I have been…
A Decade for People of African Descent
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. December 15, 2014. The United Nations has proclaimed 2015-2024 the International Decade for…