A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, discusses the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of over 30,000 original documents depicting their escapes.
“One of the things that we learn from these tens of thousands of ads, is that people were continuously resisting. And in the process of resisting, they write themselves— they inscribe themselves on precisely the archive that is meant to police them,” , professor of history in the 鶹Ƶ and 鶹Ƶ, said in the episode.
Baptist, author of “” (Basic Books, 2014), is one of the co-founders of , a collaborative, crowdsourced public history project created by scholars, students, and citizen historians. Its database of “runaway ads” is not only publicly available, but the project works in partnership with K-12 educators to create pedagogical resources for teaching the history of American slavery.
“The Humanities Pod,” from Cornell’s (A&S), showcases the new and exciting work of humanists at and around Cornell through informal conversations with faculty, fellows, and special guests.
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Tyler Lurie-Spicer is events coordinator for the Society for the Humanities.
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