Workshop One: Fugitivity, Emancipation, and (Un)freedom
Date: Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2023
Location: Seminar Room 222 in Maxwell Hall at the Gayle Karch Cook Center
This two-day event will address the histories and legacies of opposing enslavement, both through individual and collective action, and through state-sponsored and private efforts to emancipate and ‘free’ slaves from bondage. The workshop will be centered around discussions of pre-circulated papers and presentations by invited participants that speak to these questions and themes and will feature a discussion of this work that will be open to all participant and will be guided by the Seminar’s organizers and lead collaborators in line with the aims of the Seminar of fostering transregional connected comparisons.
