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Bernard Harcourt, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT)
13/13 CCCT, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT)
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Columbia Global Center - Paris
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT) presents 4/13 | THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
Professors Dennis Childs, Maeve Glass, Jennifer Morgan, and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss:
Chapters 2 and 3 of Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary by Dennis Childs
“Venus in Two Acts” by Saidiya Hartman
“Partus sequiter ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery” by Jennifer Morgan
Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery by Joseph P. Reidy
The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince
Selections from Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
About this seminar:
This seminar will focus on the long history of the abolition of slavery. The passage from a de jure to de facto system of racial oppression in this country raises many important questions. Some involve the continuities and the differences: What can we learn from thinking of these different periods as similar or different? Some involve the lessons to be learned for abolitionist movements in other domains: In what ways do the struggles enrich each other? Some involve the hidden and not-so-hidden pitfalls of abolitionism: What are the shoals to be avoided in future abolitionist campaigns? These will be some of the themes we explore in this seminar on the abolition of slavery.
Abolition 13/13 information, including bibliographies, can be found here.
