One central feature of the so called making of the modern , has been that of liberty . The emergence of ideas of liberty occurred during the formation and consolidation of European colonial empires and plantation racial slavery . Using the Haitian Revolution and the political ideas of Black abolitionism in the Caribbean and the Americas , this talk will map how alternative practices and conceptions of freedom emerged from the ideas and practices of the enslaved. . The talk will end with the argument that these ideas of freedom are central to the history of freedom and may hold relevance for freedom practices today.

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Anthony Bogues is the Asa Messer professor of Humanities and Critical Theory and the Inaugural director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University . He is also a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown . He is a writer and curator . He has authored/ edited 9 books in the fields of intellectual history , political thought and Haitian Art . He is currently a curator and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa . He has held humanities fellowships at Stanford University , Dartmouth College and University of Cape Town where he was a Mellon Visiting Professor.

He is currently the co- convener of two curatorial projects , a historical curatorial project on Slavery and the Making of the Modern World ; and a contemporary art project . This Life : Black Archelogies of the Now. He has curated numerous art shows in the Caribbean , USA and South Africa.

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