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CC10: *Dr. Rebecca Scott*, “Microhistory Set in Motion: Equality of Public
Rights and the Atlantic Itinerary of a Family of African Descent, 1799-1899"
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El Instituto de Estudios del Caribe de la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río
Piedras (UPR-RP) invita a la comunidad universitaria y al público en
general a la conferencia: “Microhistory Set in Motion: Equality of Public
Rights and the Atlantic Itinerary of a Family of African Descent, 1799-1899",
por la *Dr. Rebecca Scott*, Profesora Distinguida Charles Gibson de
Historia y Derecho, University of Michigan. El *Dr. Juan Giusti Cordero*,
Departamento de Historia, Facultad de Humanidades, UPR-RP, comentará la
ponencia. La presentación tendrá lugar el Lunes, 27 de febrero, de 1:00 a
3:00 p.m., en el Anfiteatro Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108) del Edificio
Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales,
UPR-RP.
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The Institute of Caribbean Studies, of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio
Piedras (UPR-RP), invites the academic community and the general public to
the lecture “Microhistory Set in Motion: Equality of Public Rights and the
Atlantic Itinerary of a Family of African Descent, 1799-1899" by *Dr.
Rebecca Scott*, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of
History and Professor of Law, University of Michigan. *Dr. Juan Giusti
Cordero, *Department of History, College of Humanities, UPR-RP, will
comment the lecture. The activity will be held on Monday, February 27, from
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Amphitheatre 211 New Building of Naturals Sciences,
Faculty of the Naturals Sciences, UPR-RP.****
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*A*t the end of the Civil War, constitutional conventions in the southern
states set out the rights of citizenship and forms of governance under
which each state would re-enter the union. Louisiana’s new state
constitution guaranteed not only civil and political rights but also
“public rights,” hence access to schools, public accommodations, and public
transportation without regard to color. One delegate to that convention,
Edouard Tinchant, was the grandson of an African-born woman transported as
a slave around 1785 to French Saint-Domingue. His family’s itinerary, which
passes through Cuba in 1803, New Orleans in 1809, France in 1848, and
Veracruz in1861, can illuminate the Caribbean and Atlantic roots of the
radical concept of equal “public rights,” and the dialogues across the Gulf
of Mexico on which its rested.****
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Humberto García-Muñiz, Ph.D.
Director
Instituto de Estudios del Caribe
Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
PO Box 23345
San Juan, PR 00931
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