Harvard African Studies Workshop | 11 March 2019 | Lisa Lindsay

HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
AFRICAN STUDIES WORKSHOP SPRING 2019

Lisa Lindsay is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A specialist in the history of Nigeria, the slave trade, and the Atlantic world, she is the author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa, which won the African Studies Association’s prize for the best book in any field of African studies published in 2017.

She presented: “Women and Enslavement in Atlantic Africa”

Discussant: Gbemisola Abiola