Tuesday, Oct 01, 2024
5:30AM to 7:00PM
HQ134
We invite you to join us for a public lecture with renowned scholar Ana Lucia Araujo around the Atlantic History of Slavery and its Memory.
Drawing on her new book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery, in this talk Ana Lucia Araujo will emphasize the need of looking at Africa and Brazil when studying the history of Atlantic slave trade and slavery, as well as the role of enslaved women in shaping slave societies and societies with slaves in the Americas. By doing so, Araujo illuminates the social, cultural, and religious lives of enslaved people working in plantations and urban areas, building families and cultivating affective ties, congregating and re-creating their cultures, and organizing rebellions. Through an approach centered on history and memory, Araujo also seeks to put the lived experiences of enslaved peoples at the center of this tragic story and open opportunities to investigate the heavy impact these atrocities have had on the current wealth disparity of the Americas and rampant anti-Black racism.
Ana Lucia Araujo is a historian and Professor at the Department of History at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. Her work has been funded by the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, CA), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the American Philosophical Society. Her recent books are The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024). She is currently working on four different projects, including “The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas” (under contract with Cambridge University Press).