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A View of Emancipation from the Dominican Borderlands
Virtual Event
April 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
The Atlantic World Research Network announces its final event of the spring term: “A View of Emancipation from the Dominican Borderlands,” an AWRN Online Colloquium at Noon on Thursday, April 30 (Reading Day), featuring historian Anne Eller of Yale University.
Join us via the following Teams link:
Eller—Dominican Borderlands—4/30 noon | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams
Eller’s first book, We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, focused on the reoccupation of the Dominican Republic by Spain in 1861 as well as the popular anti-colonial movement that followed. In the book, Eller deepened study of the impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world and breaks from paradigms that emphasize perpetual conflict between Haitians and Dominicans in the nineteenth century.
In her presentation, Eller will engage in rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, considering how popular anticolonial resistance, as well as Caribbean anti-slavery movements across multiple islands and coasts, were anchored in a rich and complex political culture that traveled beyond individual shores.
Please join us for 20 minutes of presentation followed by an hour’s wide-ranging discussion!