About the Program
From the 2008 Harlem Book Fair a panel discussion on the bicentennial of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade to the United States. The panelists include Rosanne Marion Adderly, author of "New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean," Sylviane Diouf, author of "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America," David Eltis, co-editor of "Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database," and Thomas DeWolf, author of "Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History." The panel is moderated by Howard Dodson, chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Rosanne Marion Adderley
Rosanne Marion Adderley is an African American and Diaspora Studies professor at Vanderbilt University.
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Sylviane Diouf
Sylviane Diouf is the author and editor of numerous books, including "Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas" and "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience" that she co-edited with Howard Dodson. Ms. Diouf is currently a curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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David Eltis
David Eltis is a history professor at Emory University. He is the author of "Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" and "The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas." Mr. Eltis is the co-editor of "Extending the Frontiers" with David Richardson.
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Thomas DeWolf
Thomas DeWolf served as an elected local official in Oregon concentrating on the arts and children's issues.
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Howard Dodson
Howard Dodson is the former director of The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a position he held for twenty-five years. Mr. Dodson is the author of Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture and co-editor of In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience with Sylviane Diouf.