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Friends' Central Distinguished Lecture: Exploring Slavery in Other Countries

2011 Friends' Central School Distinguished Humanities Lecture

Eve Troutt Powell
Other People’s Help: Exploring Slavery & Servitude In Other Cultures

November 9 | 7:30 pm | Shallcross Hall

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Eve Troutt Powell, an expert on Middle East history and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, will speak about slavery in the Middle East and East Africa. Learn how the American Perception of "The Help" compares with the history of slavery in the Middle East and East Africa. Powell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain and the Mastery of the Sudan.

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