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SUMMARY:The Presence of Absence: Interrogating and interpreting forced and
  free migration in the Atlantic Caribbean - Alissandra Cummins (Barbados M
 useum &amp\; Historical Society)
DTSTART:20220210T160000Z
DTEND:20220210T173000Z
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CONTACT:Lydia Clough
DESCRIPTION:In a 1959 Exhibition advocate historian Elsa Goveia contextual
 ized the importance of the West Indies to the advancement of empire by con
 fronting the centrality of black unfreedom in that process. She stated tha
 t: Freedom confers mobility. The slave's position is characterized by fixi
 ty. His status is a matter of law\, which places him under the control of 
 a master. The master decides his occupation and his place of residence. Th
 e law restricts his physical movement. He is coerced by law and by the mas
 ter's will. This presentation will examine the re-appropriation of contest
 ed and contingent colonial spaces of Barbados\, as part of an ongoing proc
 ess of interrogation and interpretation of the archive and the archaeology
  of absence\, where the lives of the enslaved have been erased or obscured
  as part of a hegemonic process of historical production\, appropriation a
 nd control. Commemoration and community engagement provide some of the too
 ls to address the contingent nature of this historical narrative\, and rev
 ising the narratives and reconstructing their presence in the process.\n\n
 This presentation will be online via Zoom. Please register at: https://cam
 -ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcOGrrzgvGtdRGa2hg3CdR_BrWuMGunqF
LOCATION:Zoom
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