Join the Georgetown Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies and the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for a presentation by Betsy Herbin-Triant, Associate Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College. She will be discussing a work-in-progress, “Slave Traders in the Family: A Black Historian Reckons with a Troubling Past,” which explores the meaning of her ancestral connections to the slave ship Mary. It originated in Providence and transported approximately 140 captives from the West Coast of Africa to Georgia in 1796. The Journal of the Slave Ship Mary, which provides a daily record of this voyage, is maintained by the Booth Family Center for Special Collections and is accessible to all researchers on Digital Georgetown. The manuscript will be exhibited at this event.
The event will be held at the Booth Family Center for Special Collections on the 5th floor of Lauinger Library. Reception to follow talk.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
Image credit: The Slave Ship, by JMW Turner (1840), courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Contact for more information:
Georgetown Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies, slavery@georgetown.edu