Grant to support Brown-led global oral history project on slavery’s legacy

Reshaping how stories are collected and curated

Bogues said the project originated in 2020 and 2021, when partner scholars led by Ibrahima Thiaw at the Cultural Engineering and Anthropology Research Unit of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, captured more than 20 hours of video interview footage with 27 people who live between Saint-Louis and the Senegal River Valley, once a central node in the transatlantic slave trade. At the end of the 19th century, French colonial authorities established villages de liberté, or “freedom villages,” for formerly enslaved Africans, and they relied on the villages . . .