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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Hutchins Center: Philippe Girard: Nathan I. Huggins Lectures (1 of 3)
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SUMMARY:Hutchins Center: Philippe Girard: Nathan I. Huggins Lectures (1 of 3)
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Philippe Girard</strong>, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University</p><p><strong>Profiles in Courage: Four Forgotten Figures of the Haitian Revolution</strong></p><ul><li>October 27th: <strong>Jean-Baptiste Belley</strong></li><li><strong><strong>Lecture 1:</strong> </strong>Jean-Baptiste Belley was a black freedman who traveled from Haiti to France in 1794 to convince the French parliament to pass a law abolishing slavery. Amazingly, he succeeded (becoming the first black deputy in the French parliament in the process), only to meet a tragic end as Napoléon Bonaparte later reneged on emancipation.<strong><br><br><a href="http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/october-27-2015-400pm/philippe-girard-nathan-i-huggins-lectures-1-3" data-url="http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events-lectures/events/october-27-2015-400pm/philippe-girard-nathan-i-huggins-lectures-1-3">Read more...</a><br></strong></li></ul>
LOCATION:Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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