Laurent Dubois, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, will give a lecture titled "Revolutionary Abolitionists," on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 4:15 pm. in the Kennedy Science Auditorium (G027) at Hamilton College.
The lecture, sponsored by the Africana Studies Program, History Department, and Anthropology Department, is free and open to the public. It commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of African slave trade.
Dubois teaches Caribbean Atlantic history at Michigan State. He has published Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, and with John Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A History of Documents.
A Colony of Citizens received the Atlantic History Prize and the John H. Fagg Award from the American Historical Association, the David Pickney Prize for the best book in French History from the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
