Becoming Free, Becoming Black

Date
April 7, 2020
Time
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location
420 Hamilton Hall
How did Africans become ‘blacks’ in the Americas? Ariela Gross, co-writer of Becoming Free, Becoming Black, will discuss how people of color challenged slaveholders’ efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery and how the law of freedom, not slavery, established the meaning of blackness in law.