{"id":7685,"date":"2025-10-03T03:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:30:45","slug":"graduate-student-becca-aponte-publishes-article-in-slavery-abolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/10\/03\/graduate-student-becca-aponte-publishes-article-in-slavery-abolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Becca Aponte Publishes Article in ‘Slavery & Abolition’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Second year graduate student Becca Aponte recently published an article in Slavery & Abolition<\/em>, the premier journal for slavery and emancipation studies. Aponte was a co-author of the article, entitled “Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857\u20131903.<\/a>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article was produced as part of the Senegal Liberations Project<\/a> (of which Aponte is a team member), a digital humanities collaborative formerly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project analyzes the liberation records of 28,930 enslaved Africans who sought freedom between 1857 and 1903.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aponte’s research interests center on emancipation, labor, and law in the French empire. Her work investigates how women wove, and were woven into, the financial and familial networks of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Senegal. Drs. Mariana P. Candido<\/a>, Adriana Chira<\/a>, and Clifton Crais<\/a> serve as her advisers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second year graduate student Becca Aponte recently published an article in Slavery & Abolition, the premier journal for slavery and emancipation studies. Aponte was a co-author of the article, entitled “Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857\u20131903.” The article was produced as part of the Senegal Liberations Project (of which Aponte […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-digital-humanities","category-faculty","category-graduate-students","category-publications","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7687,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}