Presented by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University

January 15, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. EST

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The recent world wide explosion of Black Lives Matter foregrounded the ways in which systematic anti-Black racism operates in our world. What is the relationship between anti-Black racism, the histories of racial slavery and colonialism? Is anti-Black racism a product of capitalism? These questions and others will be debated and discussed in the webinar forum Race, Slavery, Colonialism and Capitalism: Contemporary Views.

Speakers Include:

·       Walter Johnson, Harvard University

·       Pepijn Brandon, International Institute of Social History

·       Jennifer Morgan, New York University

Moderator, Anthony Bogues, Brown University

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (USA), the International Institute of Social History (NL), and the Research Center for the Study of Material Culture (NL). 

Published by Meadow Dibble

Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a writer, researcher, and antiracist historical recovery advocate working to surface New England's suppressed narratives through her practice Public History & Education Consulting LLC. In 2018 she founded Atlantic Black Box, a grassroots public history project that empowers communities throughout the Northeast to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with the region’s complicity in the slave trade and the global economy of enslavement. Meadow serves as Project Lead on the Place Justice Project for the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations.

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