22-23 Sept 2011
Celebrating Alexander Crummell: Reform, Education, Liberation
Academic symposium in honour of Alexander Crummell, African American
campaigner against slavery, Episcopalian minister, missionary and
teacher in Liberia, writer, speaker, leader. Crummell studied at
Cambridge between 1849-53 (mainly classical literature and
mathematics). Contemporaries regarded his education as a crucial
achievement, and a powerful tool in campaigns against slavery and
racism, and for Civil Rights. W. E. B. Du Bois dedicated a chapter of
'The Souls of Black Folk' to him.
Aims: This will be a broad, interdisciplinary academic conference,
which draws in some of the many fields and topics in which Crummell's
life might be considered. These include: Race, Gender and Reform,
Abolition, Transatlantic and Black Atlantic history, 'Back to
Africa', Liberia, the Colonization Movement, Diaspora and Africa,
Race and Education/Classics, 'racial uplift', reform movements, the
South, religion and ethical culture, the Episcopalian Church,
Missionaries, Freemasons, travel, literary and political afterlives,
W. E. B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.
Place and Time: University of Cambridge English Faculty, 22-23
September 2011.
The symposium will coincide with the opening of an exhibition on
Alexander Crummell and Cambridge in the Black Atlantic.
Papers are invited in any relevant disciplines, and the topics listed
above are not intended to be prescriptive. Please send 500 word
abstracts, plus a brief self-description or cv by 15 March 2011 to Dr
Sarah Meer at Crummell@english.cam.ac.uk
Queries to the same address.
Exhibition: Alexander Crummell and Cambridge in the Black Atlantic
Exhibition about Crummell's time at Cambridge and later life and
achievements; Cambridge in the Black Atlantic, and in the
mid-Nineteenth Century. The exhibition will suggest some of the
history of Black students in Cambridge, including the 18C Jamaican
Francis Williams, and the history of black people in the city,
including Olaudah Equiano's daughter, who was buried in Chesterton
churchyard.
Aims: To complement the academic symposium, and also interest a wider
general audience. The exhibition will be opened during the symposium,
then remounted in October to coincide with (British) Black History
Month and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It will be open to the
general public. We shall also work with the Cambridge Admissions
Office to make the exhibition useful for their work with Open Days,
Access, Widening Participation, and the Group for Encouraging Ethnic
Minority Applicants.
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