The Slave Trade in Georgia: Understanding Its Global Origins and Long-term Effects
Mar 03, 2020 12:00 PM
Dr. Matt Harper, Assoc Prof, Mercer University
The Slave Trade in Georgia: Understanding Its Global Origins and Long-term Effects
Matt Harper Ph.D. – Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Mercer University. He holds an MA and PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of The End of Days (UNC Press, 2016), a book on African American religion and politics in the decades after emancipation. He has contributed to essay collections on African American religion and politics, established an ongoing university research partnership with a state historic site about black life and labor in middle Georgia, and written numerous conference papers and book reviews in the areas of southern and Atlantic religious and political history. He teaches courses on African American history, Latin America and the Caribbean, the international slave trade, research methodology, and civil rights.
INTRODUCTION: Tom Gay
INVOCATION: Shep Ansley