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LAPIDUS CENTER FOR THE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery — funded
by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New
York Public Library — generates and disseminates scholarly knowledge on the
slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery pertaining to the Atlantic World. 

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MEET THE 2023-2024 COHORT OF LAPIDUS CENTER FELLOWS

The Lapidus Center offers long- and short-term fellowships to researchers who
receive access to the Center's collections, opportunities to disseminate their
work across Library channels, and monetary support.

Meet the 2023–2024 cohort of fellows.




DR. TIYA MILES WINS SCHOMBURG CENTER’S 2022 HARRIET TUBMAN PRIZE

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the
Schomburg Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Tiya Miles is the winner of its
2022 Harriet Tubman Prize for her book All That She Carried: The Journey of
Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.

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NOW OPEN: 2023 HARRIET TUBMAN PRIZE SUBMISSIONS

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the
Schomburg Center is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the
2023 Harriet Tubman Prize. The prize awards $7,500 to the best nonfiction book
published in the U.S. on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the
Atlantic World. The postmark deadline for nominating titles is December 31,
2022. If there are any questions, please contact lapiduscenter@nypl.org.

Apply



ONLINE APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR 2023-2024 LAPIDUS CENTER FELLOWSHIPS

If you are a researcher studying the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in
the Atlantic World, consider applying to the short and long-term fellowships at
the Lapidus Center. Fellows receive access to the Center's collections,
opportunities to disseminate their work across Library channels, and monetary
support. The deadline to apply is Monday, January 9, 2023.

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1-DAY DISPLAY: SOJOURNER TRUTH & HER 1828 COURT RECORDS TO EMANCIPATE HER SON

On October 4 starting at 2 PM, experience a rare opportunity to view the court
records of Sojourner Truth's historic 1828 legal victory to free her son from
enslavement in our one-day pop-up exhibit. Plus, view a copy of Narrative of
Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the
State of New York, in 1828 by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert from the
collection of our founder Arturo Schomburg. The text offers Truth's personal
account of the case. The pop-up exhibit is in support of the our program,
Uncovered: Sojourner Truth's Quest for Liberty and Justice, taking place at the
Schomburg Center on the same day at 6:30 PM. 

This panel discussion is in collaboration with the Historical Society of the New
York Courts, the New York State Archives, and the New York State Unified Court
System. (Court papers: New York State Archives. New York (State). Supreme Court
of Judicature (Utica). Writs of Habeas Corpus, 1807-1832. J0029-82. Box 3)

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LAPIDUS CENTER ANNOUNCES 2022 HARRIET TUBMAN PRIZE FINALISTS

Professors Tiya Miles (Harvard University), Olivette Otele (University of
Bristol), and Joshua D. Rothman (University of Alabama) have all been named as
finalists for the 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize granted by the Center’s Lapidus
Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery. The prize honors
the best nonfiction book on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the
Atlantic World published in the U.S. during the previous year. The winner will
be announced in December. 

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LAPIDUS CENTER ANNOUNCES 2022–2023 FELLOWS

Congratulations to Edward Ball (Independent Scholar and Historian), Arielle X.
Alterwaite (Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, University of
Pennsylvania), and Dr. David Luis-Brown (Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
and English, Claremont Graduate University). Using the Schomburg Center’s
extensive collections, each will examine slavery across the Atlantic world. 

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DR. VINCENT BROWN WINS THE HARRIET TUBMAN PRIZE

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is pleased to announce that Dr.
Vincent Brown is the winner of the 2021 Harriet Tubman Prize for his book
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. The Harriet Tubman Prize
awards $7,500 to the best nonfiction book published in the United States on the
slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. 

Dr. Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of
African and African American Studies at Harvard University. 

(Photo of Dr. Vincent Brown by Stephanie Mitchell)

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ABOUT THE LAPIDUS CENTER FOR THE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY

The 2014 gift which created the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of
Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center included the generous financial
investment as well as 400 rare items of printed material — and books and
documents continue to be added to the collection. Today, the collection include
over 700 items, making the Schomburg Center home to one of the world’s premier
collections of slavery material. 

The Center supports the work of researchers with long-term and short-term
fellowships. Given the centrality of Atlantic slavery to the making of the
modern world, the Lapidus fellowships ensure that slavery studies are a
cornerstone of the Schomburg Center’s broader research community and provide a
counterbalance to the contemporary direction of scholarship in African American
and African Diaspora studies.

To raise awareness and historical literacy, the Lapidus Center engages the
public with a variety of programs, an annual nonfiction prize, exhibitions,
conferences, and partnerships with local, national, and international
institutions.


 * RECOMMENDED READS: EXPLORING SLAVERY & MEMORY IN THE U.S.
   
   Discover classic and contemporary novels, poetry, and nonfiction works
   curated by the Lapidus Center and Penguin Classics on slavery and memory in
   the U.S. 
   
   Learn More
   


 * NEW BOOKS FROM LAPIDUS CENTER CURATOR DR. MICHELLE COMMANDER
   
   Dr. Michelle D. Commander, associate director and curator of the Lapidus
   Center, has published two new books including Unsung: Unheralded Narratives
   of American Slavery & Abolition and Avidly Reads: Passages.
   
   Learn More
   


 * SUBVERSION & THE ART OF SLAVERY ABOLITION
   
   This exhibition highlights several of the ways that abolitionists engaged
   with the arts to agitate for enslaved people’s liberty in the eighteenth and
   nineteenth centuries. 
   
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 * WATCH NOW: PANDEMIC LEGACIES
   
   The virtual 2021 Lapidus Center conference explored medicine in the age of
   Atlantic slavery via a combination of keynote conversations and panel
   sessions. Explore videos of the conference and find out more about Black
   wellness. 
   
   Learn More
   


SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE

Founded in 1925 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2017, the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world’s leading cultural
institutions devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials
focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.

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