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The Department of History presents:
Lydia Jackson and the Study of Enslaved Black Women in Colonial Canada
Friday, September 23
3 p.m.
This talk will explore the life of Lydia Jackson, who suffered re-enslavement in Nova Scotia after the American Revolution. It will look at some of the fundamental methodological problems of studying people who do not have a great deal of historical documentation about their lives. Some historians have correctly written at length about how the archive silences certain groups of people, but in this case, we have a fair amount of documentation about a re-enslaved Black woman and can recreate a short biography of her life.
Harvey Amani Whitfield is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He earned his MA and PhD from Dalhousie University. He is the author of several books, including Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860 and North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes. His newest book, Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press.
Free. Everyone welcome.
Contact:
Jenny Oseen | oseejs@uleth.ca | 403-329-2551