Human Rights Program, Historical Studies Program, Center for Civic Engagement, and “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck” Project Present
Weathering Colonial Property: Memory and Self-Sovereignty in Gonaïves’ Notarial Archives
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Olin 201
6:40 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
6:40 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Dr. Winter Rae Schneider ’10, Accountable History Network Cofounder
This final chapter from Schneider's manuscript Debts of Independence: Rural Accounts of Sovereignty in Haiti’s Nineteenth Century locates the mutual foundation of national sovereignty and rural self-sovereignty in the practice of rural family land ownership. It argues that sitting with ancestral experience and memory in the nineteenth-century agricultural plaine des Gonaïves demands a shift in our understanding of the persistence of colonial property and its meaning over time.For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:40 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin 201