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Date

Mar 28 2023
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Time

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Cost

Free
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Conversations at Noon on the CT Freedom Trail: The Amistad Rebellion in History and Film

Episode 2: The Amistad Rebellion in History and Film

The story of the Amistad has been researched and told countless times, but rarely from the point of view of the Africans themselves.   

Join Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh, who will discuss his prize-winning book, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (2012)and his prize-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014), directed by Tony Buba, showing how the meaning of the event changes when we look “from below,”” from the point of view of the Africans who emancipated themselves through the uprising.  Prof. Rediker will also discuss the meaning of the event in its own time and in ours when the teaching of history has become controversial.

 

Location

Connecticut's Old State House
800 Main Street, Hartford, CT

Labels

Virtual
Connecticut's Old State House

Organizer

Connecticut's Old State House
Website
https://www.cga.ct.gov/osh/