This mosaic will explore the various ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is remembered, taught, and memorialized in Ghana, West Africa and Charleston, SC. Students will focus their individual and group research along three research themes: museums, monuments, and cultural memorialization. Students will travel to Ghana to explore the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the significance of the “slave coast” of West Africa. This region incorporated the slave forts of Cape Coast Castle and El Mina – two of the major sites for slave embarkations for the Americas from West Africa from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Additionally, students will travel to South Carolina to examine African survival in a New World context. They will discover not only the ways in which the Atlantic Slave Trade is commemorated in one of the major U.S. disembarkation sites of enslaved Africans, but they will also analyze how African culture is preserved at historic plantations, in Gullah/Lowcountry communities, and through material culture in the 21st century.
Directors:
Prof. Lynn Johnson (Africana Studies) and
Joyce Bylander (Special Asst. to the President
for Institutional and Diversity Initiatives)
Information Sessions:
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Noon–1 p.m. | Althouse Room 206
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Noon–1 p.m. | Althouse Room 206
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
6–7 p.m. | HUB Sideroom 203
For more information contact the Department of Africana
Studies (africana@dickinson.edu), Yoleidy Rosario
(rosarioy@dickinson.edu) or call 717.245.1963.
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