Center for the Study of Slavery
Center for the Study of Slavery
J.M.W. Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Past Events

Slave Traders in the Family: A Black Historian Reckons with a Troubling Past

February 2, 2026

The Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies joined with Lauinger Library to host a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Associate Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College, about the logbook of the Mary, which sailed out of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1795, and transported captive Africans from West Africa to Savannah, Georgia, to be sold into slavery in the United States. The logbook is held in the Booth Family Center for Special Collections.