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Please join us for a talk entitled "Florida's Black Self Emancipators" by Dr. Neil Vaz of Seminole State College.The talk will focus on Florida's maroons known as the Black Seminoles in the nineteenth century. It will highlight the self-emancipation of these African descendants and why these stories have been kept out of the history books. The talk will shed light on the underrepresented maroon history, which is the history of the African/African descended communities found throughout the Americas during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. This narrative does not present these populations as victims without agency, but as heroic fighters who earned their freedom through self-emancipation, rebellion, and warfare, and established independent communities amid the existence of the draconian modern states being established throughout the Americas.
Dr. Neil Vaz is grew up in Central Florida. He was raised in Casselberry, having attended Casselberry Elementary, South Seminole Middle School (now South Seminole Academy), Lyman high school, and Seminole State College. He then transferred to Florida State University with his Bachelors and completed graduate school at Howard University where he studied African History for the Masters program and the African Diaspora in his doctoral program as he completed his PhD. His main area of research focuses on the African diaspora.
Light refreshments will be served. The talk is free, and open to the public! For more information, please call 407-665-2489 or visit http://www.seminolecountyhistoricalsociety.com/.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
250 W County Home Rd, Sanford, FL 32773-6189, United States
