Mar
17
2011
Anne Bennett
Forced labor by Europeans and the Prison of Luanda, Angola 1881-1932
Dr. Tim Coates, Dept. of History, College of Charleston
Friday, March 18, 2011
3:15 PM
Addlestone Library, Room 227
205 Calhoun Street, Charleston, S.C.
Timothy Coates is a Professor of History at the College of Charleston and formerly the Vasco da Gama Visiting Professor of Portuguese History at Brown University. He has conducted research in Portugal, India, and Macau on grants from the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Fundacao Oriente, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Professor Coates organized two international conferences at the College of Charleston to celebrate the 500th anniversaries of Vasco da Gama’s arrival in India and Pedro Cabral in Brazil.
Jan
19
2011
Anne Bennett
The Holloways: Legacy of an American Family
Faculty Seminar Series: Harlan Greene, Archivist, Special Collections
Friday, January 21, 2011
3:15 PM
Addlestone Library, Room 227, 205 Calhoun Street
“The Holloways: Legacy of an American Family.” Free people of color have always occupied an intriguing place in Southern and Charleston history. Locally, the Holloway family was one of the most pre-eminent free people of color clans. Although the brick and stone memorials they erected to their family and their class have been destroyed, a fragile paper scrapbook survives. Housed at the Avery Research Center and recently restored, the volume created in the early 20th century not only documents their social, legal, cultural and slave owning activities before the civil war, but dramatically shows how the family’s status declined in the Jim Crow era. The scrapbook, an attempt to shape historical memory, is not only a memorial but a plea sent out to future historians to not erase the Holloways and their class from history, something they saw happening – and which inspired the scrapbook’s creation. Harlan Greene, former Director of Archival and Reference services at Avery, now Senior Manuscript and Reference Archivist at Addlestone Library, will share his observations regarding the scrapbook and the article based on it in a forthcoming in the
Oct
15
2010
John White
Faculty Seminar Series: Dr. Edmund L. Drago
Friday, October 29, 2010
3:15 PM
Addlestone Library, Room 227, 205 Calhoun Street
Dr. Edmund L. Drago, Department of History, College of Charleston, “A View of America’s Civil War Millennial Era through the Perspective of Eliza Fludd, Charleston Prophetess: Gender and Global Implications, 1800-1890.”
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