Department of History at Ohio State's video: Blackout: Shining a Light on Two Centuries of Forced Illiteracy in the Slave South

A lecture by Peter Wood, Professor Emeritus at Duke University given at The Ohio State University Department of History's Program, "1619 and Beyond: Exploration in Atlantic Slavery and its American Legacy." Filmed on Friday, November 15, 2019. Peter Wood is author of "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion" (1975). In late August 1619 “twenty and odd” Angolans were brought from the West Indies to the Chesapeake Bay on the ship White Lion. Some of these individuals were sold into slavery at Jamestown. This year, 2019, marks the quadricentennial of this arrival of Africans in British North America and the start of a trans-Atlantic slave trade that would continue (legally and illegally) until the Civil War. The Ohio State University will reflect on this tragic event with a year-long program about slavery and its legacy in American life. The series will feature invited lectures by eminent scholars of Africa, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and American slavery. We will also offer film screenings, seminars, and Slavery Roundtables. The departments urge students to participate in these events and to take courses dedicated to the history of slavery. Sponsored by: Department of History Department of African and African American Studies Center for Historical Research Office of Diversity and Inclusion Ohio Early American Seminar Organizing Committee: Chair: Stephanie Shaw Members: John Brooke, Joan Cashin, Alice Conklin, Simone Drake, Joan Flores-Villalobos, James Genova, Eric Herschthal, Hasan Jeffries, Ousman Kobo, Ahmad Sikainga, Adam Thomas For more information about the program, please visit https://u.osu.edu/osuchr/1619-and-beyond/