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Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad

Abstract: Underground Railroad scholarship has focused almost exclusively on interior overland routes used to escape enslavement in the Antebellum South. Largely overlooked, however, is the great multitude of enslaved persons who made their way to freedom aboard merchant vessels plying coastal routes along the Atlantic seaboard. This crucial but neglected aspect of the Underground Railroad story is the focus of a groundbreaking volume of ten essays edited by Timothy Walker. Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad demonstrates that escaping bondage by sea was commonplace -- especially from southern coastal regions where slave labor in maritime industries was ubiquitous. Such work gave enslaved people experience with vessels and seafaring, a knowledge of coastal geography, contact with ships’ crews from northern free states, and access to ocean-going northbound voyages. Documented successful escapes from the far South were almost all achieved by sea. By highlighting these little-known stories and describing the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, this talk will reshape our perception of how it functioned, to provide a more comprehensive, accurate historical perspective.

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The Necessity of Black Educational Space

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Research suggests that for Black students in K-12, Black-led educational spaces equip them with education to succeed in society (Andrews, 2014). Based on focus groups and interviews with Black Canadian university students, this presentation extends the literature arguing that Black-led educational spaces may serve as a crucial tool for the educational and professional success of Black post-secondary students. It also argues that Black community organizations remain a venue for cultivating these spaces.

Bio:

Tka Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at 91ÑÇÉ«. Her doctoral project lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, political ecology, and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of life work. Her research interests extend to diaspora studies and community-engaged research.

Abstract: The transition to renewable energy sources is essential for decarbonization, climate change mitigation and fostering sustainable development. This paper examines the effect of natural resources on renewable energy development and the modulating effect of governance. The study is based on data for 48 African countries for the period 2000-2020. Our findings, based on the generalised method of moments (MM) estimator, indicate that natural resources enhance renewable energy development in Africa, and the results are robust across alternative specifications of natural resources and governance. When robustness is checked through quantile regression, the results show that the positive effect depends on the conditional distribution of natural resources and the type of natural resource under consideration. Results for the indirect effect show that governance interacts with natural resource rents to generate positive synergy effects across different governance specifications and natural resources, except for coal rents.

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