BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:294@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T170000 DTSTAMP:20200122T171136Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/african-imam-in-london/ SUMMARY:A West African Imam in 18th-Century London: How the Radical Enlight enment Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture\n–Catherine Molineux\, Vanderbilt University\n\n\n\nIn the early 1730s\, a Senegambian named Ayub a Suleiman Diallo came to London after being redeemed from slavery in colo nial Maryland by the Georgia colony leader\, James Oglethorpe. This lectur e will explore the circumstances by which he emancipated himself from bond age\, which included raising funds from various elite Britons who were int erested in his Arabic literacy and Islamic faith. Ayuba’s story highligh ts the intersection of Britain’s Radical Enlightenment\, a movement that \, among other things\, generated new curiosity about Islam and its histor y\, and the operation of the Anglo-American Atlantic slave trade in the ei ghteenth century.\n\n[caption id="attachment_7820" align="alignleft" width ="244"] Ayuba Suleiman Diallo\, called Job ben Solomonby William Hoare of Bath\, 1733Oil on canvasL245Property of Qatar Museums Authority[/caption]\ n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nCatherine Molineux is A ssociate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Vanderbi lt University. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in History (with Honors)/ B.S. in Microbiology from the Univer sity of Texas at Austin\, summa cum laude. Trained in history\, literary c riticism\, and art history\, her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on the history of the early modern British Atlantic (including early North Am erica and the Caribbean\, Britain\, and West Africa)\, with special emphas is on visual culture and on race\, slavery\, and empire. She published Fa ces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Imperial Slavery in Imperial Britain (C ambridge\, Mass.: Harvard University Press\, 2012) and is working on a new book\, tentatively entitled "The Making of Kings: African Sovereignty in the British Atlantic World" with support from a 2013–14 ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship and Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Faculty Fellowship (2 016–2018).\n\nNo registration is required. There is no charge for this e vent.\n\nQuestions?\nContact Jeanette LaVere at jlavere@humnet.ucla.edu  or 310-206-8552. CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, Califo rnia\, 90095\, United States GEO:34.0728982;-118.44216640000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los A ngeles\, California\, 90095\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Roy ce Hall\, Room 306:geo:34.0728982,-118.44216640000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR