“The Fugitive Justice and the Abolition of the Master/Slave Girl Dialectic” talk

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As part of the “Centering the Lives of Black Women and Girls” series, Jasmine Syedullah will give the lecture “The Fugitive Justice and the Abolition of the Master/Slave Girl Dialectic” on December 1 at 5:30pm in the Villard Room of Main Building at Vassar College. This talk focuses on the writings of Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved mother and abolitionist, and explores traditional patriarchal relationships to property, rights, and freedom. Syedullah is a political theorist and scholar in the radical intellectual tradition, whose research focuses on figurations of freedom and captivity from the plantation to the prison.