Joint Session of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History and the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism Workshop

Date and Time

February 10, 2014
04:00PM - 06:00PM EST

Location

Harvard Law School, Lewis Hall, Room 214A

“Slavery's Stale Soil: Indentured Servants, Guest Workers, and the End of Empire”

Speaker:

Cindy Hahamovitch, Professor of History, College of William and Mary.

Commentator:

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator:

Manuel Rincon-Cruz, PhD Candidate, Program on Regional Studies - East Asia, Harvard University.

The precirculated paper will be available at http://bit.ly/wighseminar or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.

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