On BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, listen to Brown and Not Made by Slaves author Bronwen Everill discuss the 1781 Zong Massacre, in which the crew of the British slave ship Zong drowned 132 people so that they could claim the deaths on their insurance.

Watch Brown discuss Tacky’s Revolt at a February 2021 online event hosted by the Benjamin Franklin House, London.At the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs blog Epicenter, read a Q&A with Brown on Tacky’s Revolt and the long-term societal impact of being in a constant state of war.Watch Brown’s conversation with New Yorker contributor Maya Jasanoff at the 2021 Jaipur Literature Festival.Watch Brown present “Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave War,” the 2021 Bancroft Lecture at the U.S.Naval Academy), hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Watch “Slavery, Warfare, and Rebellion in the Caribbean,” a March 2021 online panel discussion featuring Brown, Marjoleine Kars (University of Maryland), and Sharika Crawford (U.S.Watch Professor Brown’s conversation with Dr Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow) at a May 2021 online event hosted by the British Library.Read a Chronicle of Higher Education interview with Professor Brown on how to tell unfamiliar stories “without letting the power of anti-Blackness stand in for Black history”.Read a Los Angeles Review of Books interview with Professor Brown on violence, power, and privilege in the British empire-and in today’s United States.Read a Boston Globe interview with Vincent Brown on what an eighteenth-century rebellion can teach the twenty-first century about dismantling racism.Soulèvement des Nègres à la Jamaïque, en 1759 Black grenadier in the 49th Regiment of Foot, 1751 William Beckford’s Estate in Westmoreland Parish “Manner of Bush-fighting by the African Negroes” Fort Amsterdam, Cormantyn, late 17th century The Battle of Cap François, 21 October 1757 The English and Dutch Forts at Sekondi, ca. Diary of Thomas Thistlewood, 4 December 1760 Simon’s March, September 1760–January 1761 The Coromantee War, May 25–August 3, 1760 The Gold and Slave Coasts of West Africa, ca. Prologue: The Path to Rebel’s Barricade.

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