Join The Caribbeanists at Yale next week for an event with Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. In April 2023, Brown traveled to Jamaica to participate in the public commemoration of Tacky’s Revolt, the largest slave rebellion in the eighteenth-century British Empire. He found himself confronted with the braided relationship between academic history and folklore, and compelled to wrestle with the fact that there is no guarantee of mutual understanding or accord in the way we remember our history, and no escape from it either. He will share reflections on that experience and on the multimedia work that has emerged from it in a conversation with Yale’s Todne Thomas (Divinity and Religious Studies).
This event is co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department, the Department of History, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale.