UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
On the occasion of the International Conference

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:

      1. Contemporary Africans’ views and memories of the Slave Trade;
      2. Visit to a Beninese town built in the 18th Century on a lake as a protection against the Slave Trade

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


Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar
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