{"id":1782,"date":"2016-11-07T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=1782"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:24","slug":"dutch-caribbean-slavery","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/dutch-caribbean-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Sugar: Dutch Caribbean and Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>CTCA (Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis) is pleased to invite you to several events featuring internationally-renowned novelist and activist Cynthia McLeod who will share her creative and scholarly work on the Dutch Caribbean and the history of slavery in her native Suriname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"\"><strong>3:30<\/strong> Public Lecture and Q&amp;A: \u201cThe Free Negress Elisabeth\u201d<br class=\"\"> <br class=\"\"> <strong>4:45-5:30<\/strong> Reception<br class=\"\"> <br class=\"\"> <strong>5:30-8:00<\/strong> Film Screening and Q&amp;A: The Cost of Sugar (based on McLeod\u2019s acclaimed novel)<br class=\"\"> <br class=\"\"> All events are free, accessible, open to the public, and co-sponsored by CTCA, CUAG, and the Institute for African Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"\">To register and for more information please contact&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"mailto:sarah.waisvisz@carleton.ca\"><span class=\"\">sarah.waisvisz@carleton.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday Nov. 11th from 11:30-12:30&nbsp;a&nbsp;Workshop on the History of Slavery in Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean for Graduate Students will be given&nbsp;at&nbsp;<span class=\"\">201D St. Pat\u2019s ICSLAC Seminar Room&nbsp;(Faculty welcome!)&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"\"><br class=\"\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-1782","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2016-11-10T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2016-11-10T20:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"SP","cu_event_meeting_room":"St. Patrick\u2019s Building","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Sarah Casteel","cu_event_email":"sarah.waisvisz@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}