Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas": How do you remember the days of slavery with Dr. Vincent Brown (Professor, Harvard University)

Historian Vincent Brown (Professor, Harvard University) will screen and discuss his new documentary film How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery. The screening and presentation session will be followed discussion. For historical context, you can refer to his book Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Harvard University Press, 2020. The seminar will be held at the HU Frederick Undergraduate Library, Multipurpose Room G007/008. This session was also made possible thanks to Dr. Araujo's ACLS HBCU fellowship.

Professor Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies.  He teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery in the Americas. Brown is the author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2008) and Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press, 2020), and he is producer of Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009), an audiovisual documentary broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens, and the short video series The Bigger Picture (2022) for PBS Digital Studios.

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.