Lecture Marjoleine Kars: Rebellion and politics in the early modern Black Atlantic

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The 1763 Monument on Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana, was designed by local artist Philip Moore. It commemorates Cuffy, leader of the 1763 slave rebellion on the Bernice sugar plantation. Source: Wikimedia/David Stanley cc-by-2.0
The 1763 Monument on Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana, was designed by local artist Philip Moore. It commemorates Cuffy, leader of the 1763 slave rebellion on the Bernice sugar plantation. Source: Wikimedia/David Stanley cc-by-2.0

On 11 September, Marjoleine Kars (Massachusetts Institute for Technology) will give the opening keynote lecture ‘Rebellion and politics in the early modern Black Atlantic’ of the conference Voices of resistance in and against Dutch empire.

Political imaginaries in the Black Atlantic

Kars will use her research on the massive 1763-1764 rebellion of enslaved people in Berbice as starting point for a discussion on the political imaginaries of African-descended people in the larger Atlantic world.

She will address the questions: What do we know? How do we know it? And how should we do justice to the widely divergent visions of freedom and emancipatory politics that existed in the Black Atlantic?

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Janskerkhof 15A, room 004
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Please send an email to Boris Wesseldijk at b.j.z.wesseldijk@uu.nl.

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