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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Discussion with María Esther Hammack
DESCRIPTION:\nMarí\;a Esther Hammack\, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow a
t the \;McNeil Center for Early American Studies \;at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania\, will join us for a research talk titled\, &ldquo\
;Bridging Underground Railroads: Diaspora\, Black Freedom\, and Abolitio
n in Mexico.&rdquo\;\n\nHammack is a Mexican scholar and public historia
n whose work bridges through a gender lens\, the histories of liberation
and abolition in North America and the Black diaspora in Mexico. Her fi
rst book\, \;Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters South of Slave
ry\, reexamines the Underground Railroad to reconsider and broaden the a
ctors\, timelines\, and geographies of Black liberation in North America
and the transnational experiences of Black Americans who left the Unite
d States to claim freedom in Mexican spaces.\n\nThis research talk is sp
onsored by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center\, the \;
Department of History\, and the \;Latin American Studies program.\n\
nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/maria-esther-hammack/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:María Esther Hammack, B
arra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McN
eil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Penn
sylvania, will join us for a research talk titled, “Bridging Under
ground Railroads: Diaspora, Black Freedom, and Abolition in Mexico.&rdqu
o;
Hammack is a Mexican scholar and public historian whose work br
idges through a gender lens, the histories of liberation and abolition i
n North America and the Black diaspora in Mexico. Her first book, <
i>Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters South of Slavery, reexami
nes the Underground Railroad to reconsider and broaden the actors, timel
ines, and geographies of Black liberation in North America and the trans
national experiences of Black Americans who left the United States to cl
aim 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.
For more det
ails: ht
tps://events.la.psu.edu/event/maria-esther-hammack/
LOCATION:102 Weaver Building
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