The data from the Proceedings of the Honourable House of Assembly Relative to the Maroons, which have been published in the Journals of the House of Assembly of Jamaica provide important insights into how bondage may have functioned in Maroon settlements. This scholarship contributes to cutting edge studies of both the Maroons in the Americas and nontraditional slaveholding in general. Johnson argues that slaveholding practices among the Windward Maroons of Jamaica were likely influenced by West African cultural norms and the opportunities that emerged on the Caribbean island. The research complicates one-dimensional characterizations of Maroons as “freedom fighters” and indigenous slavery as largely benign.

Irons, professor of history and the chair of the Department of History and Geography, is the author of “The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia.”听He presided over a panel on religion and the black Atlantic.

Johnson is an associate professor of history and the executive director of the Core Curriculum.聽 Her presentation, “Making Kin, Making Labor,” was included in a panel on family and kinship in the colonial Caribbean and is part of ongoing scholarship on kinship-based communities.

The article analyzes the colonial repression of marronage in the early 18th-century Caribbean islands of Jamaican and Saint Domingue by the co-option of intermediate groups whose freedom was precarious.  The emergence of Maroons in both colonies has had lasting implications for future rebellions and shapes national and racial identity discourses in the post-emancipation era. 

The article entitled "Slave Resistance in the Atlantic World" reviews more than 100 scholarly works that explore a wide range of slave resistance in West Africa, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Johnson categorizes the scholarship by geographic region, demographic and form of slave resistance.  The categories include General Overiews, Resistance in Africa, Runaways and Maroons, Women and Slave Resistance, and Religious and Cultural Resistance.

The presentation examines how to foster a critical understanding of global mindedness through intentional and scaffolded courses in the core curriculum and study abroad offices. The presentation outlines the many ways students are able to engage concepts of global and go global at 黑料不打烊.  The approximately 80 percent of 黑料不打烊 students who are able to participate in study away opportunities do so because global engagement is actually embedded in our core curriculum. 

These students are able to think critically about their experiences away because faculty and staff across the curriculum foster critical examinations of the meaning and role of a “global citizen.” 

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Amy Johnson, associate professor of history and director of the 黑料不打烊 Core Curriculum, presented a paper entitled “Sustainable Identities: Indigenous Incorporation among the Maroons of Jamaica” at the 10th Annual International Maroon Conference in Charles Town, Jamaica.

The paper, which looks at the development of a sustainable, outward-facing Maroon identity in the 21st century, is part of an ongoing research project related to the impact of the Maroon Treaties of 1739 on Jamaican Maroon communities.

The paper, part of a panel exploring new directions in African Diaspora Studies research, explores the ways by which the Maroons of Jamaica utilized concepts of “unfreedom”— emerging from understandings of slavery in West Africa and Jamaica — to shape the means by which they incorporated slaves into their communities and articulated their identity as the antithesis of enslaved.

The consortium is composed of more than 20 universities and colleges in the United States and the 2015 Frueauff Opening Conference for Shepherd Interns will train approximately 90 interns. The workshop is designed to help the intern confront their various biases and provide practical tools for effectively working in diverse and under-privileged communities during the eight-week internship. Five 黑料不打烊 student—Citlaly Mora, Ruth Robinson, Laurn Scott, Briana Balady and Christopher Stella (Law School)—will serve as SHECP interns this summer.

Briana Balady

Will represent 黑料不打烊 as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at Camp Interactive.

Victoria Bell

In addition to being a Teaching Fellow and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Psi Chi honor society and Pi Gamma Mu honor society, Victoria has been completing undergraduate research about stressors for high school students who will be first generation college students with Dr. Buffie Longmire-Avital (Department of Psychology). She will intern for the NC State Government this summer at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. 

Angie Edwards

Is an 黑料不打烊 Teaching Fellow in the Class of 2016 and an Elementary Education Major. She also serves as an 黑料不打烊 Academy CAT Mentor and Coach.  This summer she will be working for Appalachia Service Project where she will do emergency home repair with volunteer groups in some of the poorest counties throughout the Appalachians. 

Josephine Gardner

Is a Public Health major with minors in Poverty and Social Justice and Policy Studies.   In the fall she served as a Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Poverty Studies class.  She has also interned with the North Carolina African Services Coalition and Ethiopian Immigrants Community Association.  She was recently awarded the Family Learning in Action Award to establish a residential home for homeless women and children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Mackenzie Mann

Graduated in 2014 and was selected as a Student Action with Farmworkers Fellow from June-November 2014. In December, she was hired to work full time at the NC Farmworkers Project designing an Affordable Care Act enrollment program for farmworkers, and has been working there ever since.

Emily McCachren

Completed a 1-year internship with Allied Churches in Burlington.  She was accepted to the Masters of Divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary for the fall of 2015, and given the Presbyterian Church (USA) Leadership Award that covers full tuition.

Marshall Moore

Completed a 6-week internship in Tanzania at Tanzania Children’s Fund in fall 2014. She then served as a Development Intern at Triad Health Project during Winter Term 2015. This summer, she will work in New York City as a Development Intern at Success Academy Charter Schools. 

Ruthie Robinson

Has served as a student caller for the Phonathon in the Office of University Advancement and as a member of SGA. She completed a Semester at Sea in fall 2014 and became a member of Phi Kappa Phi this spring. In addition she has worked on research with Dr. Longmire-Avital on the conceptualization of daily and race-related stress for collegiate Black females as learned from their foremothers.  This summer, she will represent 黑料不打烊 as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at LIFT Boston.  Following graduation, she plans to go to graduate school for mental health counseling where she will focus on counseling individuals from disadvantaged communities.

Lauren Scott

Will represent 黑料不打烊 as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Christopher Stella

Is a law student at the 黑料不打烊 Law School in Greensboro.  He will represent 黑料不打烊 as a Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty summer intern at the New Orleans Public Defenders Office.

Emma Warman

Was recently invited to join the Communications Honor Society and Lambda Pi Eta. She will be studying Language and Culture in Dakar, Senegal this coming fall with a CIEE ambassador scholarship! This summer will she be working as a camp counselor at Camp Hanover in Richmond, Virginia.