From The Door of No Return
“From the Door of No Return
: The Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” will be moderated by Howard Dodson, the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Other scheduled panelists include Rosanne Marion Adderley (New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean), Sylviane A. Diouf (Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Last Africans Brought to America), David Eltis (Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database) and Tom DeWolf, family member and author of Inheriting the Trade. The panel discussion will be televised live on C-SPAN, during the 10th Annual Harlem Book Fair on July 19.
The panel is from 4:00-5:30pm in the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, N.Y.
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