WEDNESDAY,DECEMBER 4, 2019 : 4-6PM
CLASS OF 1947 ROOM -- HOMER BABBIDGE LIBRARY
Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the British colonies
Discussing the legacy of American slavery andThe New York Times' 1619 Project
Featuring:
Dr. Sasha Turner
Associate Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
Fellow, Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Author, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
Dr. Frank Mitchell
Executive Director, Amistad Center for Art and Culture in Hartford, Connecticut
Dr. Alhaji Conteh Assistant Professor in Residence in Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
For more information, contact: Africana Studies Institute at africana@uconn.edu