Brown’s landmark slavery and justice center celebrates 10 years of high-impact scholarship
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 22, 2023
Leading public historians have taken notice of the CSSJ’s growing influence — and they’ve enlisted the center’s help in telling the global story of slavery.
In 2017, award-winning director and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Stanley J. Nelson Jr., who has examined the history and experiences of African Americans in films like “Freedom Riders,” tapped students and faculty at the CSSJ for help researching a forthcoming documentary that will chart the economic and human cost of the slave trade across the Atlantic basin. The four-part documentary, “Creating the New World: The Transatlantic Slave Trade,” is . . .
