The tale of an enslaved African who earned his freedom in New England came back to life on April 21, 2008 — with a larger lesson.
The story of Venture Smith was told by John Wood Sweet, an associate professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gave the talk at Yale’s Luce Hall. The event was organized by The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Center of the Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, a vibrant resource here in New Haven for truth-seekers.
Sweet used Smith’s story to “anchor an analysis of the colonial dynamics that brought together — and kept apart — a series of disparate regions and peoples in the increasingly global early modern world.”
http://www.yale.edu/glc
The story of Venture Smith was told by John Wood Sweet, an associate professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gave the talk at Yale’s Luce Hall. The event was organized by The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Center of the Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, a vibrant resource here in New Haven for truth-seekers.
Sweet used Smith’s story to “anchor an analysis of the colonial dynamics that brought together — and kept apart — a series of disparate regions and peoples in the increasingly global early modern world.”
http://www.yale.edu/glc
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