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Join Loyola’s own  history Professor, Dr. John Donoghue as he discuss slavery then and now as it relates to human trafficking. The event is will take place on Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus in Dumbach room 120. This event is a part of Sun Gate Foundation CEO, Shamere McKenzie, efforts to raise awareness on Loyola University’s campus.

John Donoghue (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2006; B.A. Westminster College, 1993) is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches courses on colonial America, the United States, and history of the Atlantic world.

Donoghue’s research focuses on the impact of radical politics, abolitionist thought, and religion in the seventeenth-century Anglo-American Atlantic world.  In “Fire Under the Ashes:” An Atlantic History of the English Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Donoghue traces the rise of abolitionist thought and action by following the lives of republican radicals around the Atlantic world during the age of the English Revolution. In Building the Atlantic Empires: Slavery, the State, and the Rise of Global Capitalism, 1500-1945 (Brill, 2014), co-edited with Evelyn Jennings, Donoghue explores how states secured their imperial interests by mobilizing various forms of unfree labor for military conquest, infrastructural development, and plantation work. His influential article “‘Out of the Land of Bondage’: The English Revolution and the Atlantic Origins of Abolition,” American Historical Review (2010) argues that multiple forms of bodily enslavement in the seventeenth-century formed a central component of England’s nascent political economy of empire; he contends that transatlantic radicals sought to abolish these various forms of enslavement as part of a wider, republican program to deliver England and its colonial dominions from what they called the “slavery” of political tyranny.

Donoghue has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Michael Kraus Research Grant from the American Historical Association (2003), a Visiting Fellowship from Trinity College at the University of Dublin (2011), a Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual research grant (2011), the Mary C. Mooney Research Fellowship from the Boston Athenaeum (2003), and grants from the International Seminar for Atlantic History at Harvard University. Donoghue’s article “Radical Republicanism, Unfree Labor, and Imperialism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661,” was the recipient of the bi-annual prize for Best Article by the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class Histories of the Americas in 2004. As a member of Historians Against Slavery, Donoghue works with other slavery scholars to end modern bondage by educating the public about its connections to historical slavery.

Sun Gate Foundation partners with Free the Slaves, Loyola  for a night called “Hope Rising.” Join us for a candlelight vigil/sky lantern release in conjunction with other groups around the country as we commemorate victims and survivors of human trafficking around the world.

The event is will take place on Loyola University’s Lakeshore Campus at the Damen Student Center Plaza.

This event is a part of Sun Gate Foundation CEO, Shamere McKenzie, efforts to raise awareness on Loyola University’s campus.

 

 

Our CEO, Shamere McKenzie and our Senior Advisor to our Board of Directors, Kevin Bales, will speak at the University of Hull’s Anti-Slavery Usable Past conference today, which will bring together experts from around the world at its Wilberforce Institute of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) to discuss what lessons can be learned from history in tackling slavery today. Click hereKevin and Shamere Yorkshire to read full article written by Yorkshire Post UK