{"id":7832,"date":"2022-12-13T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7832"},"modified":"2023-10-03T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:16:03","slug":"unsilencing-slavery-a-celebration-of-celia-e-naylors-new-book","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/unsilencing-slavery-a-celebration-of-celia-e-naylors-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsilencing Slavery: A Celebration of Celia E. Naylor\u2019s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_S7vW7crUDQ?si=UyHja1n5iB1-L3eA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Celia E. Naylor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by <\/span><b>Natasha Lightfoot<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor\u2019s new book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(University of Georgia Press, 2022, Gender and Slavery Series). The conversation will be followed by a reception.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Book\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Popular references to the Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica often focus on the legend of the \u201cWhite Witch of Rose Hall.\u201d Over one hundred thousand people visit this plantation every year, many hoping to catch a glimpse of Annie Palmer\u2019s ghost. After experiencing this tour with her daughter in 2013 and leaving Jamaica haunted by the silences of the tour, Celia E. Naylor resolved to write a history of Rose Hall about those people who actually had a right to haunt this place of terror and trauma\u2014the enslaved. Naylor deftly guides us through a strikingly different Rose Hall. She introduces readers to the silences of the archives and unearths the names and experiences of the enslaved at Rose Hall in the decades immediately before the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. She then offers a careful reading of Herbert G. de Lisser\u2019s 1929 novel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The White Witch of Rosehall<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014which gave rise to the myth of the \u201cWhite Witch\u201d\u2014and a critical analysis of the current tours at Rose Hall Great House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naylor\u2019s interdisciplinary examination engages different modes of history making, history telling, and truth telling to excavate the lives of enslaved people, highlighting enslaved women as they navigated the violences of the Jamaican slavocracy and plantationscape. Moving beyond the legend, she examines iterations of the afterlives of slavery in the ongoing construction of slavery museums, memorializations, and movements for Black lives and the enduring case for Black humanity. Alongside her book, she and a small group of collaborators have created a website as another way for readers to explore the truths of Rose Hall:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rosehallproject.columbia.edu\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rosehallproject.columbia.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unsilencing-slavery.org\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/unsilencing-slavery.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Speakers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Celia E. Naylor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a professor in the Africana Studies and History departments at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (University of North Carolina Press, 2008, John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture). A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Naylor currently lives in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Natasha Lightfoot<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an associate professor of History at Columbia University. She specializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and Black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Duke University Press, 2015). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her forthcoming book<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fugitive Cosmopolitans<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> centers on enslaved people\u2019s mobility, imperial subjecthood and struggles for freedom between empires in the Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Accessibility<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASL Interpretation will be provided. For additional accessibility needs please email <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">skreitzb@barnard.edu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an in-person event, free and open to all. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/fall-2022-covid-safety-guidelines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please review our COVID safety guidelines.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/unsilencing-slavery-a-celebration-of-celia-e-naylors-new-book-tickets-488115716247\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Registration is preferred.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celia E. 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