Wars Against Black Freedom After Slaver

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Presenters and Topics

Maria Mercone, Ph.D. candidate in postcolonialisms and global citizenship at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.

Topic: THE REBEL ARCHIVE OF PRISON WRITINGS: AN INSURGENT ACCOUNT ON CARCERAL FORMATIONS IN THE POST-EMANCIPATION ERA 

Theodore S. Francis II, assistant professor of history at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas.

Topic: BLACK LIBERATION IN BERMUDA: THE SLAVESHIP ENTERPRISE, DIASPORA AND THE LIMITS OF EMANCIPATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY ATLANTIC WORLD.

Caree Banton, Director of African and African American Studies and an Associate Professor of African Diaspora History at the University of Arkansas.

Topic: “…TOSSED UPON A SEA OF DISTRESS: FREEDOM, FAR FROM IT!”          

D.A. Dunkley, associate professor of Black Studies and director of Peace Studies, University of Missouri.

Topic: AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK PRIEST AND THE 1793 YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC