As the 2013-2014 year comes to a close, we sincerely thank you all for your continued support of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. In the short time since the establishment of our Center at Brown, we've continued to grow and that growth has been a result of your participation. At our events, it's always exciting to see new faces, as well as returning ones.

It has been a busy and successful year, and we want to take a moment to share some highlights with you and let you know what's coming up. Again, thank you so much for participating in sharing our mission and showing us your continued support. (And keep reading for some exciting news!)

All our thanks,

Tony Bogues, Shana Weinberg, and Ruth Clark

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Please visit brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/events-exhibitions/2013-2014 to see a full archive with photos and video recordings of each evemt.

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On May 22nd, the Lower Lobby Gallery of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts was filled with guests for the opening of the exhibit The Many Faces of Toussaint L' Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution.

This exhibition by one of Haiti's leading artists, Edouard Duval-Carrié, paid attention to the many different ways in which the leader of the Revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture, was portrayed.

Thanks so much for your help in making this exhibit a success!

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This August, the CSSJ offices will be moving to our very own home at 94 Waterman Street. Lots of work is currently taking place to make this space warm and welcoming for all our guests and visitors.

We hope you'll join us in this space this fall!

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We are pleased to welcome two postdoctoral fellows for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavery & Justice: Mekala Audain earned her Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. Her research interests include chattel slavery, slave rebellion in the Americas, black immigration, and the African American experience on the U.S. borderlands. Her dissertation, “Mexican Canaan: Fugitive Slaves and Free Blacks on the American Frontier, 1804-1867,” recovers the southern Underground Railroad in the nineteenth century and examines free black thought about Mexico in the antebellum era.

CSSJ/John Carter Brown Library Postdoctoral Fellow: Justin Pope received his Ph.D. in history from the George Washington University in 2014.  He grew up on a horse farm in Kentucky and worked as an urban planner for the cities of Saint Petersburg, Florida, and Medford, Oregon, before returning to academia to pursue his passion for early America history.  His interest in the history of American slavery has led him as far afield as Ghana and Barbados and now to the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.  His current book project examines an eruption of real and imagined slave uprisings that swept through the British Atlantic between the years 1729 and 1746, the era of the War of Jenkin’s Ear.

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Below is a sampling of what to expect next year. Please check back soon at brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/events-exhibitions to see the most up-to-date schedule.

September:
Unveiling of Slavery Memorial designed by Martin Puryear
"1764: Brown's Founding in a Global Context": Prof. Craig Wilder

October:
New building opening reception at 94 Waterman Street

November:
50th Anniversary of Brown-Tougaloo College Partnership
Marian Anderson String Quartet Concert

December:
Emerging Scholars series

February:
Black History Month Film Series
Conference on Race in America Today

March:
2015 Annual Debra L. Lee Lecture

May:
NEH Changing America Exhibition comes to Brown

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