{"id":2758,"date":"2012-08-30T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T19:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?page_id=2758"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:00:15","slug":"kongoworkshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/newsevents\/event-archives\/fall-2012-lecture-series\/kongoworkshop\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Kongo in the Americas Workshop:
Face Jugs in South Carolina<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Mark Newell<\/strong>, Director, Georgia Archaeological Institute
<\/em>April Hynes<\/strong>, Research Associate, Edgefield Stoneware Research Center at Trenton, South Carolina<\/em><\/h3>\n

C\u00e9cile Fromont, Assistant <\/em><\/strong>Professor, Art History at the University of Chicago<\/em>
John K. Thornton, <\/em><\/strong>Professor, African American Studies & History at Boston University<\/em>
Linda Heywood, <\/em><\/strong>Professor, African American Studies & History at Boston University<\/em>
<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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When: \u00a0\u00a0 Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:00 \u2014 5:00 p.m.
\nWhere: \u00a0 Reform Chapel at the Hillel House
\n213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA (BU Maps<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

To register, click here<\/a><\/p>\n

Schedule:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
1:00-1:15 Registration<\/h5>\n
1:15\u00a0-1:30 Introduction by Allison Blakely and Welcome by John Thornton<\/h5>\n
1:30-2:30 “Face Jugs in South Carolina”<\/strong> Mark Newell and April\u00a0Hynes<\/h5>\n
2:30-3:00 Break<\/h5>\n
3:00-3:30 “Design, Aesthetic, and Spirituality in Nineteenth Century Kongo” C\u00e9cile Fromont<\/h5>\n
3:30-4:00 \u201cIllegal Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Kongo\u201d Linda Heywood and John Thornton<\/h5>\n
4:00-4:45 Question and Answer period<\/h5>\n
4:45-5:00 Closing remarks-Linda Heywood<\/h5>\n

Co-Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, BU African Studies Center, American and New England Studies at BU, Department of Archaeology at BU.<\/em><\/address>\n
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\"FaceJuga\"<\/a><\/dt>\n
Photo courtesy of Jim Wildeman, Face Jug, 1860-80, Chipstone Foundation Collection. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

In the winter of 2011-2012, Mark Newell and April Hynes<\/a>, archaeologists working on the remains of a pottery works at Edgefield, South Carolina unearthed substantial remains of a pottery tradition started by local potters of African origin, working as slaves.\u00a0 The archaeologists extended their project to include an interesting history of some of the potters, who could be identified through records as survivors from one of the last ships to make slave trading visits to the African ports and left their unwilling cargo in Charleston.\u00a0 These enslaved potters ultimately hailed from the region around the mouth of the Congo River in West Central Africa, and contemporary biographies occasionally mentioned rivers and villages that were probably located in the Kingdom of Kongo.<\/p>\n

This Kongo to South Carolina connection was an old one, in the eighteenth century the founding generation of Afro-South Carolinians came frequently from the West Central African region, in fact the largest single group before 1740, and over half the imports in what was at the time the most Africanized region of English North America.\u00a0 The slave trade, which continued in the region right into the early nineteenth century was frequently dominated by West Central Africans and so that region and its culture is foundational to much of South Carolina\u2019s African population, and through them to much of the cultural and biological heritage of African Americans elsewhere as well.<\/p>\n

In light of these discoveries, the African American Studies program is holding a workshop on September 27, 2012 to discuss the connection between Kongo and North America and Kongo\u2019s role in shaping American culture.<\/p>\n

Boston University\u2019s African American Studies program is uniquely situated to undertake this workshop as two of our faculty (Linda Heywood and John Thornton) are internationally known experts on Kongo and West Central Africa, and Boston University has a long standing and excellent African Studies Program.<\/p>\n

In addition to the two archaeologists, and\u00a0two Boston University faculty, the workshop\u00a0includes art historian C\u00e9cile Fromont,\u00a0Professor of \u00a0University of Chicago, whose work has been devoted to the Kingdom of Kongo\u2019s Christian art.<\/p>\n

Download poster,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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