Please join the From Slavery to Freedom Lab on Tuesday, October 22, 2019, for two events with Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University.
Lunch served 12–12:30 pm | Seminar 12:30–2 pm
From Slavery to Freedom Lab | Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106
*RSVP Required* | Email slaverytofreedom@duke.edu
Dr. Sharpley-Whiting explores her encounter with slavery archives, her runaway slave great, great grandfather, and Daniel Boone and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Presentation 4–5 pm | Reception 5–5:30 pm
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall | Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105
Drawn from Bricktop's Paris and its exploration of black women expats in Paris, this talk explores the centrality of black women in our cultural imagination, despite their erasure, and Dr. Sharpley-Whiting’s own attempts to recover them, beginning with the volume, "Black Venus."
English Department
