“Beyond the Slave Narrative: 18th Century Voices of the African Diaspora”

Event time: 
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
230 Prospect (PROS230), Room 101 See map
230 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
Event description: 

Drawing on courtroom testimony by enslaved Africans in colonial Louisiana, this talk argues that far from seeing testimony as exclusively antagonistic, the enslaved seem to have seized the opportunity to testify. In doing so, they produced an extraordinary corpus of autobiographical narratives as they sought to voice their experiences of slavery and diaspora.