Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 4-11, 1999

Volume 28, Number 7

Series focuses on slavery
in early U.S. and the Middle Ages

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale is hosting a year-long series of talks on different aspects of slavery.

The series is organized around two themes: "Slavery and Race in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern Period," and "Slavery and Founders of the American Republic." All the lectures will take place on Wednesdays at 4:15 p.m. in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., and are free and open to the public.

The series opened on Sept. 29, with a talk on "Slavery in the Ancient World" by Donald Kagan, the Hillhouse Professor of Classics and History Donald

A schedule of future speakers in the series follows:

Oct. 6 -- Hugh Davis of Southern Connecticut State University. Davis will talk about his biography of the19th-century religious leader and journalist, Leonard Bacon in "Leonard Bacon and the Antislavery Movement in New Haven and the North."

Nov. 10 -- Jerome Handler of the Virginia Historical Commission will discuss "Survivors of the Middle Passage: Autobiographical Accounts by Enslaved Africans in British America."

Nov. 17 -- Benjamin Braude of Boston College will look at early European conceptions of the biblical tale about a "cursed" son of Noah in "The Curse of Ham."

Jan. 12 -- Bertram Wyatt-Brown of the University of Florida will talk about "The Mask of Obedience: Slave Psychology in the Old South."

Feb. 9 -- Jennifer Baszile, assistant professor of history and African-American studies at Yale, will speak on slavery and settlement rivalry in southeastern North America from 1670-1741.

Feb. 16 -- Paul Lovejoy of York University will speak on a topic to be announced. This event is cosponsored by the Council on African Studies, part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Feb. 23 --Patrick Manning of Northeastern University will speak on a topic to be announced. This event is also cosponsored by the Council on African Studies.

March 29 -- Dalton Conley, assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Yale and author of the recently published, "Being Black, Living in the Red," will talk about race and property rights after Emancipation.

April 12 -- Sylvia Frey of Tulane University will deliver the last lecture of the series, "Slavery and the American Revolution."

Further information about the series is available on the Gilder Lehrman Center website: www.yale.edu/glc.

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