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Book Talk: Freedom’s Horizon

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Colloquium/Symposium Global/Intercultural

Wed, Sep 10, 2025

4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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"Freedom’s Horizon" is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their descendants crafted their visions of liberation by thinking comparatively about the uneven spread of abolition across the Atlantic world. Between the 1840s and 1860s, they acted on the idea that the end of slavery anywhere placed freedom on the horizon in Brazil. Thus, they pursued alliances with British diplomats; rose in arms at the sight of both Union and Confederate warships off Brazil’s Atlantic coast; sought free soil at foreign consulates, on ships, and in maroon settlements (called quilombos); and organized uprisings for immediate abolition after learning of international emancipation struggles in the newspapers.

Discussant: Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers University)

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Program in African Studies | View More Events

Brazill Lab
Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Brazil Lab, Africa World Initiative