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X-WR-CALNAME:Honor and Risk: Recovering Afro-Atlantic Power and Its Objects
  from the Archives of Enslavement by Cécile Fromont 
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DESCRIPTION:Cécile Fromont – Professor of History of Art and Architectur
 e\, Harvard University\n\nIn the first half of the eighteenth century\, Af
 rican men and women enslaved or free\, living in plantations or cities aro
 und the Atlantic\, created empowered packets that protected them and their
  clients against physical\, social\, and spiritual vulnerability. These pa
 ckets\, though little known today\, have deeply shaped the nature of power
  and the modes of its exercise in the Atlantic world since the era of the 
 Enlightenment. The traces left of them in the archives are faint\, fragmen
 ted\, and marred by the violence that European religious and civil authori
 ties tirelessly wielded against them and their makers in the hope to bette
 r understand their nature and contravene their powers.\n\nWhat methods can
  historians devise to reconstitute the Afro-Atlantic knowledge and techniq
 ues lost in the destruction of the packets and the silencing of their make
 rs? What procedures can scholars design to rescue from the archives of ens
 lavement meaningful fragments that may bring back to life these ancestral 
 objects? What are the risks inherent to such attempts?\n\nThis talk explor
 es the possibilities and the dangers of recovering Afro-Atlantic power and
  its objects from the archives of enslavement and of honoring the humanity
  of empowered-packet makers by writing their life and deeds into the annal
 s of human history.
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LOCATION:Rush Rhees Library\, Humanities Center Conference Room D
SUMMARY:Honor and Risk: Recovering Afro-Atlantic Power and Its Objects from
  the Archives of Enslavement by Cécile Fromont 
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 afro-atlantic-power-and-its-objects-from-the-archives-of-enslavement
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