Downtown Bend: A Novel Idea - The Transatlantic Slave Trade | |
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Event Type: Adult Program Age Group(s): Adult Date: 4/30/2017 Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 2:30 PM Description: Dr. CarmenThompson of Portland State University discusses how the exploitation of African labor through transatlantic and internal slave trading led to the development of an early capitalist Europe; bolstering it and ultimately the United States into world superpowers.
Library: Downtown Bend Public LibraryDr. Carmen Thompson is an Oregon Native and a professor of African American history and Black Studies at Portland State University and at Portland Community College. Dr. Thompson holds a Master’s degree in African American Studies from Columbia University in New York and a PhD in U.S. History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Thompson’s research interests include the history of slavery and the slave trade in the early America and Pre-colonial West Africa, early African American history, race and racism in America, and the Great Migration. *cr* *ani* Location: Brooks Room Contact: Liz Goodrich Contact Number: 541-312-1032 Presenter: Dr. Carmen Thompson Link: A Novel Idea 2017 |