SOH Black Thriving Chair and the SOH Black Thriving Graduate Cluster presents:
What Sorrows Labour in my Parent's Breast: A History of the Enslaved Family
with author Dr. Brenda E. Stevenson (UCLA and Oxford) in conversation with Dr. Jessica Millward (UCI)
January 29, 2024
Talk: 5:00 PM
Book signing & reception: 4:00 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
Dr. Brenda Stevenson, UCLA Nickoll Family Endowed Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies, will be joined by UCI Professor of History Jessica Millward to discuss Dr. Stevenson's new book "What Sorrows Labour in my Parent's Breast: A History of the Enslaved Black Family" (Rowman & Littlefield). In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed. The themes of this work center on the multifaceted reality of loss, recovery, resilience and resistance embedded in the desire of African/African descended people to experience family life despite their enslavement.