Humanities Center, Visiting Scholar: Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan, "On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive," Thursday, February 22nd, 5:30 pm, Zoom

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 5:30 p.m.

Humanities Center Visiting Scholar, Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan: "On Race and Reinscription: Writing Enslaved Women into the Early Modern Archive," Thursday, February 22nd, 5:30 PM, Zoom Webinar

Register for Webinar: https://csuchico.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApc-GurTkpE9Q3Xpbx9HmosIL5vLYqIlW6?_x_zm_rtaid=hl0KNLfCT5yeIg6AX0DZGA.1707341234101.8a72b8c725603711795ad6c17531e238&_x_zm_rhtaid=784#/registration

Funding provided by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council.

In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan uses the history of three black women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to explore questions of methodology and evidence in the early history of the black Atlantic. Through evidence from visual art, law, and commerce, Morgan considers the challenges and possibilities of crafting a social historical study of women whose voices are so often absent from the archival record but whose lives and perspectives have proven to be essential for comprehending the origins of racial capitalism.

Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of the Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2021) which won the Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians and the Frederick Douglass Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University; and of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). She is the co-editor of Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America (University of Illinois Press, 2016). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in the early modern Black Atlantic.

Morgan served as the Council Chair for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture from 2019-2022. She is the past Vice President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and is a lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians. She lives in New York City.

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Director: Erin K. Kelly

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