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Lecture | A New Canaan in Nicaragua? A Caribbean Experiment in Black Freedom, 1848-1854

Thursday, February 12, 2015, 6:00 pm

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The California Gold Rush of the 1850s transformed the Caribbean port town of San Juan del Norte (rechristened Greytown after British occupation in 1848) from a sleepy trading post into a teeming crossroads of cultures and politics. Greytown was at once the easternmost terminus of a likely interoceanic canal and a place—to the great surprise of so many travelers—where much of the commerce and governance was in the hands of people of African descent from the Caribbean, the US, and Nicaragua. Greytown’s inhabitants increasingly sought to fashion the town as an island of political freedom, racial equality, and entrepreneurial independence in a sea of American imperialism, white supremacy, and commercial expansionism.

Lecturer Justin Wolfe is associate professor and William Arceneaux Professor of Latin American History at Tulane University.

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