Conference Summary
As part of pre-conference activities, conference participants
visited the Evergreen plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana. Depicted above
are the slave quarters. Click on the photo to see a larger version.
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Conference
Overview
Elisee Soumonni of the Universite Nationale du Benin
presented a paper entitled "The Need for a Diaspora Perspective in
the Teaching of Slavery in Africa.
Read
an abstract of Dr. Soumonni's paper
Gwendolyn Midlo
Hall, "Linking Africans in Africa and the Americas: The
Mystery of the Mina."
Dr. Hall, author of
the acclaimed Africans in Colonial Louisiana, discussed the various
types of sources and new methodologies utilized in her book in press, Africans
in the Americas: Continuities of Ethnicities and Regions (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming) and her published
database CD: Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History
and Genealogy: A Compact Disk from Original Manuscript Sources (Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000).
Read
Dr. Hall's paper
Robert
Harms,
Professor of History and Chair of African Studies at Yale University,
presented slide presentation of the slave ship Diligent
from Nantes.
Abstract
of Dr. Harm's presentation
Dr.
Deborah Mack,
Director, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,
presented a detailed report on the museum's progress and projected
programs.
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Dr. Mack's report
Dr.
Barbara Glass, Glass Clarity Inc., Curriculum Consultant,
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, presented a report on the
museum's progress in developing an educational CD-Rom for interactive
classroom studies of the underground railroad.
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Dr. Glass' report
William
E. Cross,
Ph.D. Professor and Head of Graduate Studies Program in
Social-Personality Psychology, Department of Psychology, The Graduate
School, City University of New York, author of Shades
of Black: Diversity in African-American Identity. Dr. Cross presented
a paper entitled "Finding Truth between Romance and Self-Hatred:
Pedagogical & Curriculum Issues Regarding the Effects of Slavery on
the Psychology &Identity Development of Captive Africans."
Read
an abstract of Dr. Cross' paper
Betty Wood, Ph.D., a fellow of Girton College,
Cambridge University, presented a report on pedogogical approaches to the
teaching of the slave trade in British schools and universities.
Read an abstract of Dr.
Wood's presentation
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