Keynote at the 8th Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference Featuring Michael Harriot
This grant will support the keynote address at the 8th Slave Dwelling Project Conference, October 3-5, 2024, in Philadelphia. This year’s theme, The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States, will explore American chattel slavery in northern states prior to and after the Revolutionary War in the 1780s. Michael Harriot, a columnist at TheGrio, staff writer on The Amber Ruffin Show, and author of "Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America," will present the keynote. The conference is being presented by the Slave Dwelling Project in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies.