1776 Salon with Vincent Brown

When:
Monday, Feb 10, 2020 7:00p -
9:00p

Where:
Oberon
2 Arrow St
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/1776-salon/

Tacky’s Revolt, The Story of an Atlantic Slave War


Join Harvard Professor Vincent Brown at A.R.T.’s 1776 Salon on February 10 as he examines the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, known as Tacky’s Revolt. Tracing the roots, routes, and reverberations of this event across disparate parts of the Atlantic world, Brown's new book, Tacky’s Revolt, expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today.


Space is limited. This event is free, but reservations are required.


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ABOUT VINCENT BROWN
Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Founding Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research, writing, teaching, and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora, with a particular emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world. Brown is the author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals, he is Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013), and he was Producer and Director of Research for the award-wining television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009), broadcast nationally on season 11 of the PBS series Independent Lens. His first book, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008), was co-winner of the 2009 Merle Curti Award and received the 2009 James A. Rawley Prize and the 2008-09 Louis Gottschalk Prize. His most recent book is Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, published by Belknap Press in January 2020.


ABOUT THE 1776 SALON SERIES
In anticipation of the A.R.T.'s upcoming revival of 1776 in May 2020 and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, we have invited various Harvard scholars to participate in a series of lectures and discussions around the history of our nation.


Hosted at various locations throughout Greater Boston, the 1776 Salon series dives deep into the stories of 18th century historical figures left out of textbooks, explores new narratives leading up to and following the American Revolution, and closely examines the voices represented and absent within the Declaration of Independence.


Scholars include Professors Timothy McCarthy, John Stauffer, Jill Lepore, Vincent Brown, Mark Tushnet, Annette Gordon-Reed, David Moss, and Jane Kamensky.

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