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On the occasion of the International Conference
Fighting Back: African Strategies Against the Slave Trade
You are invited to attend the workshop
TEACHING THE SLAVE TRADE
Livingston Campus, Rutgers University
February 16, 2001
The Rutgers Department of History, Center for African Studies, and Institute for High School Teachers, in collaboration with the UNESCO/ York University Nigerian Hinterland Project of Canada, will hold a workshop, Teaching the Slave Trade, during the international conference Fighting Back: African Strategies Against the Slave Trade (February 16-17, 2001.)
The conference and workshop will provide an unprecedented opportunity for high school teachers to discuss the slave trade with twenty distinguished scholars from Africa, the United States, and Canada, whose research is in the vanguard of slavery studies. For the first time, a conference will be entirely devoted to the crucial topic of African resistance by individuals, families, communities, and states, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Scholars will use history, literature, oral tradition, psychology, the arts, traditional cultural forms and political science to show that resistance to enslavement and involvement in the slave trade was much more pervasive than acknowledged by the orthodox interpretation of historical literature.
The teachers workshop will focus more broadly on the subject of the slave trade and its impact on Africa. Teachers will receive:
Workshop Agenda
9:00 9:30 Continental breakfast
Introduction to the Workshop
9:30 12:00 Conference (panel: The Landscape as Strategy)
Against the Slave Trade
Elisée Soumonni - Université Nationale du Bénin, Cotonou, Benin
From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thierno M. Bah - Université de Yaoundé, Cameroon
in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Dennis Cordell - Southern Methodist University
And Land Occupancy
Adama Guèye - Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
12:00 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30 3:00 Overview of the Slave Trade
Current topics in Slave Trade Studies
Resistance to the Slave Trade
Screening of a 2-part video:
Demonstration of computer use for resources in Slave Trade and Slavery Studies
Distribution and discussion of printed materials on the Slave Trade
Registration Form
Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers # 324
I would like to register for the one-day workshop Teaching the Slave Trade. There is a $20 fee, payable at the time of pre-registration. Checks should be made payable to RCHA. Workshop spaces are limited so please apply at your earliest convenience. Refunds will be given only if cancellation is made seven days prior to the workshop date. Please submit requests for refunds in writing. Continental breakfast, lunch, selected reading, and classroom materials will be provided. Free parking is available.
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Mail completed form with payment to the RCHA, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 88 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. For further information contact (732) 932-8701 or rcha@rci.rutgers.edu
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