María Esther Hammack, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will join us for a research talk titled, “Bridging Underground Railroads: Diaspora, Black Freedom, and Abolition in Mexico.”

Hammack is a Mexican scholar and public historian whose work bridges through a gender lens, the histories of liberation and abolition in North America and the Black diaspora in Mexico. Her first book, Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters South of Slavery, reexamines the Underground Railroad to reconsider and broaden the actors, timelines, and geographies of Black liberation in North America and the transnational experiences of Black Americans who left the United States to claim freedom in Mexican spaces.

This research talk is sponsored by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, the Department of History, and the Latin American Studies program.