Owen Stanwood, Boston CollegeComment: Wim Klooster, Clark University
Huguenot refugees have long been stock characters in colonial American history. Fleeing persecution in France, they scattered around the continent during the late-1600s, from New England to South Carolina. This paper, part of a larger project on the global Huguenot diaspora, places these American...
Full title: “‘Not Merely There To Help The Men’: St. John V. General Motors Corp. And Equal Pay Litigation At The Dawn Of American Fair Employment Law”
David Freeman Engstrom, Professor Of Law, Stanford University
Philippe Girard, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University
October 29th: Isaac Sasportas
Lecture 3: Isaac Sasportas was a Haitian-born Sephardic Jew. Inspired by the French Revolution¹s embrace of religious and racial equality, he conceived an elaborate plan in 1799 to export the Haitian Revolution to nearby Jamaica and to free...
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Philippe Girard, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University
October 28th: Joseph and Marie Bunel
Lecture 2: Joseph Bunel was a Haitian diplomatic envoy who visited Philadelphia in 1798 and who is generally regarded as the first black ambassador to the United States‹except that he was not. His unique role as...
