In leading “Slavery’s New Materialisms,” Professor Seth Rockman hopes to give the seminar’s members an opportunity to engage with a scholarly turn in Slavery Studies occurring right before our eyes.

“This is a different way of learning and engaging in history,” notes Professor Zach Sell of the work of the Atlantic Slave Trade Research Cluster. Since 2017, the CSSJ has been engaged in an ongoing collaboration with Firelight Media to produce a groundbreaking, multi-part documentary series entitled Creating the New World: The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Professor Sell, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the CSSJ and Associate Producer with Firelight, has been guiding this partnership.

On the 400th anniversary of the start of slave trade in the British American colonies, students and faculty at Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice are engaging in research for a PBS miniseries directed by renowned documentarian Stanley Nelson, hosting a two-day symposium on the lasting effects of slavery and more. Read the full article here.