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"Slavery in the Age of Abolition" Syracuse University Humanities Center Faculty Fellow Dr. Tessa Murphy, Department of History, Spring 2023

Tessa Murphy, Associate Professor in the department of History and a Spring 2023 Humanities Center fellow, discusses her current project, "Slavery in the Age of Abolition." The project uses…

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Jim Watts, Imagining the Economics of Jubilee: Utopia Before and After Utopias

Watts’ career-long research on the biblical book of Leviticus now hones in on chapter 25. It contains utopian legislation for resetting agriculture, land transactions, and slavery every 50…

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