Readers in the New York area may be interested in the following H-Net
announcement:
Wednesday, January 30, 6-7:30 p.m.
East Gallery, Buell Hall
Columbia University: Main entrance at Broadway and 116th st
Historians Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan) and Jean Hébrard
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) discuss their new
book, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
(Harvard University Press, 2012) in conversation with professors
Christopher L. Brown (History, Columbia), Madeleine Dobie (French and
Comparative Literature, Columbia), Eric Foner (History, Columbia) and
Pierre Force (French and History, Columbia). Moderated by Emmanuelle
Saada (French and History, Columbia).
A historical tour de force combining micro-history and global history,
Freedom Papers opens with the enslavement of Rosalie, a woman from
Senegambia, and then traces her family’s quest, across five generations
and two continents, for lives of dignity and equality. The story of
Rosalie and her descendants unfolds against the background of three
great antiracist struggles: the Haitian Revolution, the French
Revolution of 1848, and the U.S. Civil War.
