AAAS Professor Gates Discusses "The Columbia Seven" at Peabody

March 24, 2021
Henry Louis Gates Jr

On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from 6:00-7:00pm (Eastern), AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will join Professor Gregg Hecimovich in a discussion, "Recovering the Histories of Seven Enslaved Americans" regarding the process of unearthing the histories of formerly enslaved people. The focus will be on “The Columbia Seven": Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jim, and Renty, the seven Black men and women photographed against their will in Columbia, South Carolina in 1850. These controversial photographs are the subject of a new book, To Make Their Own Way in the World (Peabody Museum Press/Aperture 2020).

This event presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in collaboration with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research is free and open to the public with advance registration required. Please note that registration will close 30 minutes prior to the event start time.