Examining the Slave Trade and Its Consequences

Howard Dodson, chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, was among the speakers at “Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition, and Creative Progress International Symposium,” sponsored by the Institute of African American Affairs at NYU. The global symposium, held 200 years after passage of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act made transporting or importing slaves in the United States or its territories illegal, examined slavery, the slave trade, and its consequences today. The three-day October event included panel discussions, literary readings, musical performances, film, and video screenings by scholars, writers, musicians, visual artists, and organizers from the U.S., Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and South America.