Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas": Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom by Dr. Frederick Knight

Dr. Frederick Knight (Professor and Chair of the Department of History) will give a talk on his new book Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) . Make sure to get the book and join us for this talk followed by discussion.

Professor Frederick Knight is a historian of African Diaspora, who was trained with a Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Riverside, in 2000, where he studied under the late Sterling Stuckey. Professor Knight joined Howard University in 2024, from Morehouse College, where he has taught since 2011 and where he has chaired the Department of History for eight years from 2011 to 2019. At Morehouse, among others he was the Director of the Institute for Research, Civic Engagement, and Policy, Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership between 2019 and 2022. Professor Knight is the author of two academic monographs: Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) and Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 (New York University Press, 2010). Professor Knight's research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute, and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, among others.

About the Howard University Department of History Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas"

Created in the Spring 2012 by Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (Professor, Department of History) this seminar is a forum for discussion of scholarship on the history and memory of slavery and their connections with the African diaspora. In the Fall 2024, after twelve years of existence, the the Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas" has a new format. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Moorland Spingarn Research Center, the new seminar consists of five to six in-person public talks and book discussions held during the academic year with scholars working in the field of slavery and African diaspora. The sessions are open to all.