Critically important, intensely personal, historically rich, socially intimidating. The pedagogy surrounding the study of slavery can be dangerously fraught, and yet the subject seems woven into nearly every aspect of our collective history and consciousness, nationally and globally. Discuss!
Assistant Professor Mélanie Aimée Marie Lamotte is a historian of race, colonialism, and slavery in the early modern period.
Research Professor Tamika Nunley’s work has focused on the history of slavery, African American women’s and gender history, the early Republic, and the American Civil War.
