Brown University’s Center for Slavery & Justice

Manuel Barcia is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Leeds. He has published extensively on the fields of African slavery in the Americas. These publications include three books and several articles in peer-reviewed journals from Europe, the US and Latin America. He's an honorary fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study […]

In the fall semester, students from AFRI0840: Monuments, History, and Memory completed projects that required them to intervene in a monument, rethink monumental space, or create a new monument. Four students from the course will present their work. Avery Oliver created "We Dream a World," an intervention into the Sailors and Soldiers Monument in Providence. Noah Howard […]

Professor Anthony Bogues will moderate a conversation with Professor Joy James; Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College; Nse Ufot, Chief Executive Officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP); Professor Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University; and Felicia Denaud, PhD Candidate in Africana Studies at Brown University

Presented by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, the CSSJ Slavery, Democracy, and Racial Violence in the Americas Seminar provides a series of lectures on slavery, racism, and violence in the modern and contemporary Atlantic World. These lectures offer an overview of the legacies of colonialism […]

This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines how cotton materially influenced the way black bodies were seen, and how black Americans saw themselves, as both enslaved and […]

Join us in this public event as we reflect on the year that has passed since the Atlanta massage murders of 2021. The CSSJ Human Trafficking Research Cluster will moderate a conversation with organizers, workers, and artists with Red Canary Song, a grassroots coalition of migrant workers, sex workers, and allies working with massage workers in Flushing, Queens. […]

Join for a research presentation by Mellon Graduate fellows at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. These presentations reflect on graduate fellows participation on the Reimagining New England Histories (RENH) -a collaborative project with Williams College, Mystic Seaport Museum, as well as Indigenous and African American communities that seeks to tell the […]

The Narragansett Chief, or the Adventures of a Wanderer, a recently rediscovered autobiographical narrative now answers many questions about the experiences of American Indian mariners. Published anonymously in 1832, the account related by Charles Lansing parallels that of Paul Cuffe, Jr. (Wampanoag/Pequot) who published his own account in 1839. Together, recounting nearly 70 voyages to […]

Reparations have become a major demand for many Black communities. This conference will examine the calls for reparations and reparative justice in different domains including politics, institutes of higher education, art, and the demands for decolonization in museums. This hybrid event will also be live-streamed. Livestream registrants Livestream link will be shared with you closer […]