Event time:
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 12:00pm
Location:
Online via Zoom
Event description:
Organized by the The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, this talk by Christine DeLucia (GLC Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of History, Williams College) traces intertwined lives of Indigenous, African-American, Afro-Indigenous, and Euro-colonial people in the Northeast/New England across the eighteenth century. The talk illuminates how individuals, families, and communities in the era of the American Revolution—and well before and after—conceptualized and pursued greater security, wellbeing, justice, and liberation. In a time of tremendous upheaval, communities sought to maintain family integrity, homelands protection, personal and collective property, cultural self-determination, and other priorities. Stories of particular books, houses, pathways, maps, images, and memory sites can bring us into fuller, and more complex, understandings of a past that remains powerful in the twenty-first century. The talk also traces how multiple ways of knowing and remembrance cultivate relations among past, present, and future.
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Admission:
Free but register in advance