This presentation will focus on Dr. Lisa Lindsay's work in progress on women as victims of the trade.
Lisa Lindsay
Lisa Lindsay is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A specialist in the history of southwestern Nigeria, the slave trade, and the Atlantic world, she is the author of Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa, which won the African Studies Association’s prize for the best book in any field of African studies published in 2017. Previous publications include Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria (2003); Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (2008); and the co-edited volumes Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (2003) and Biography and the Black Atlantic (2014). She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and her outstanding teaching has been recognized with a UNC distinguished term professorship.