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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Dr. Herbert Klein, Professor of History and
Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University and
a Hoover Institution senior fellow--will present an address on "African
Slavery in Brazil and Comparative Perspectives" on Thursday, March 6, at 7
p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center at the SUNY
College at Oneonta. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of
the community are invited to attend.
Dr. Klein's talk will focus on the social, economic, and cultural evolution
of the slave society in Brazil, where some 4.5 million Afro-Brazilians
arrived in the early to mid-1800s. He will discuss the nature of the
Brazilian slave society and compare it to the slave societies that developed
in English, French, and Spanish America.
Dr. Klein is the
author of 17 books, including African Slavery in Latin America and the
Caribbean and The Atlantic Slave Trade. He has written nearly 150
scholarly articles in several languages on Latin American and on comparative
themes in social and economic history. Before joining Stanford University,
he was the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University. He
has also been a Guggenheim fellow, a Woodrow Wilson fellow, a Fulbright
lecturer, and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale and Oxford.
Professor Klein's appearance at SUNY-Oneonta is sponsored by the
College's History
Department, History Club, Redfield Fund, and Public Events Committee.
More information on the event is available from Dr. Miguel Leon of the
SUNY-Oneonta History Department at (607) 436-2013.
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