Author Dr. Michael Dickinson gives a talk on his new book Almost Dead. Where he will describe how urban environments provided unique barriers to and avenues for social rebirth: the process by which African-descended peoples reconstructed their lives individually and collectively after forced exportation from West Africa.
Dr. Dickinson explains that it was in these urban slave’s communities; within the connections between neighbors and kinfolk; that the enslaved found the physical and psychological resources necessary to endure the seemingly unendurable.
Whether sites of first arrival, commodification, sale, short-term captivity, or lifetime enslavement, the urban Atlantic shaped and was shaped by Black lives.
Register for this event and others from DICE during Black History Month 2023:
https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d5AY87MZjEsRAX4
Location: West ABC Camden Campus Center