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Author Talk: Andrea C. Mosterman, Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York

  • Historic Red Hook 7562 N Broadway Red Hook, NY, 12571 United States (map)

Join us for this free program on Zoom on Thursday, February 17 at 7 PM.

Andrea Mosterman is associate professor in Atlantic History and Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans. In her work, she explores the multi-faceted dimensions of slavery, slave trade, and cross-cultural contact in the Dutch Atlantic and Early America with special emphasis on Early New York. She has published her work in the Journal of African History and Early American Studies, and she curated the digital exhibit "Slavery in New Netherland" for the New Netherland Institute. Her book Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York (Cornell University Press, 2021) won the 2020 Hendricks Award for best book-length manuscript relating to New Netherland and the Dutch colonial experience.

Participants will receive a 40% discount code to purchase the book from Cornell University Press.