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Presentation description
Join as Dr. Ife Williams leads a discussion around her work on slave revolts.
The Slave Revolts project is a multimodal interactive map that cites the chronology and frequency of revolts by African and African Descendants to enslavement. This digital humanities project illustrated that armed resistance occurred from the onset of the European encounter, including numerous attempts to halt the trade in African people. The aim was to edit the descriptions and citations for optimum accuracy and to make the map markers more interactive by incorporating video, audio, images, and additional text to contribute to the scholarship on resistance to enslavement. The digital revolt map offers a holistic approach to slavery themes: conditions; laws, particularly those on punishments, including “thinking about revolting;” relationships within the enslaved community; and the role of international events that influenced the mobilization of African people.
About the speaker
Dr. Ife Williams holds a BA (1976) from Lincoln University, MA (1981), and a Ph.D. (1988) in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University. She is a Political Science and African American History Professor at Delaware County Community College in Pennsylvania. Her manuscript, “Police Brutality: A Philadelphia Story,” published by Lexington Press in May 2023, has received acclaimed reviews. The recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship for Enhancement of Digital Map on African and African Descendants’ Resistance Against Enslavement, building upon decades of scholarship on slavery, brings the stories of revolts from across the globe into an interactive, digital modality.(blackslaverevolts.org) The Smithsonian Institute incorporated her markers for ship revolts in their exhibit, “In the Wake of Slavery,” that opened at the National African American Museum on December 13, 2024. Dr. Williams was recently awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities to create a second map of African and African American Resistance 1944-1994. A three-time Fulbright award recipient as a Specialist, lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and lecturer/researcher on reparations at the University of West Indies, Barbados. She also served as past President of the African Heritage Studies Association (2018-2021).
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