Slavery Captivity and the Meaning of Freedom RFG

Comments by Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Jannie Scott (Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, March 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Jannie Scott (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) "Refashioning Black community in the Wake of Emancipation:...

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (History, UC Santa Barbara) Tuesday, April 12, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Professor Barbieri-Low will lead a discussion of pre-circulated materials from his latest research. For copies of the texts, please email maclean@classics.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of...

This RFG brings together faculty and graduate students who study enslavement, manumission, liberation, and freedom from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. The complex, often elusive, concepts of enslavement and freedom are both historically contingent and central to the broader social, economic, political, and...