NNI’s 43rd Annual Conference
NNI’s 43rd Annual Conference
“In 1991, workers discovered an African burial ground in lower Manhattan. This discovery confronted New Yorkers with the city’s history of slavery and renewed conversations about slavery and African American culture in the region. Remnants that were found at this burial ground also helped reconstruct the history of slavery and African cultural influences in seventeenth- and especially eighteenth-century New York. Today, a monument at the African Burial Ground’s location at 290 Broadway commemorates the city’s enslaved population and the region’s legacy of slavery.”*
We are pleased to announce that our 43rd Annual Conference will convene at (and above) this remarkable site on the 24th of October 2020. We will welcome proposals for a broad range of presentations that help us understand not only the complex histories of race and slavery in the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland but also its legacy and how it has lingered in the public imagination. A detailed call for presentations will be out shortly.
*Excerpt from NNI's digital exhibit “Slavery in New Netherland” by Dr. Andrea Mosterman.