Join us for a presentation by this year’s MJR fellow Daniel Morales Armstrong, a retelling of the emancipation story in PR through the archival records of the formerly enslaved people who redefined the meaning of freedom in the colony. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with Ashley Coleman Taylor (UT Austin), Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, and Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, which will focus on how Black Puerto Ricans in the diaspora are writing about and reckoning with the legacies of slavery in our work across disciplines/genres. This conversation – largely about memory as well as methods – will have a particular focus on engagement with the archives through traditional and non-traditional means. The event will conclude with a call to action for the audience to engage the archives of Puerto Rico with an appropriate, person-centered ethos of care - and the sharing of resources aimed at increasing access to those archival collections.

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Thumbnail image title: "Santa Isabel Contrato de Liberto #252 (María Josefa), 20 June 1873"

Source: Records of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico Collection, Box 74, Archivo General de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.