DSA 2020: Panel 7: Forgotten Kinships: African American Emigration to Hispaniola

Panel 7: Forgotten Kinships: African American Emigration to Hispaniola

Chair

Sophia Monegro, University of Texas, Austin

Presenters

Sophia Monegro, Ph.D. Student, African/African Diaspora Studies, U of Texas, Austin
“The Afterlives of Slavery in Santo Domingo: African American Women in the Fugitive Montes of the Dominican Republic and Haiti”
Jhensen Ortiz, Librarian, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York
“We Choose Freedom’: Documenting African American Presence in the Dominican Republic”
Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Department of Social Science, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Lauren W. Hammond, Assistant Professor of History, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois
Sara Fanning, Associate Professor of History, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas
“African Americans and the Emigration Movement to Haiti in the 1820s”
Christina Davidson, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington U, St. Louis, MO