{"id":5122,"date":"2023-10-06T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=5122"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:10","slug":"follow-the-north-star-to-canada-draft-resisters-and-the-underground-railroad-shannon-lectures","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/follow-the-north-star-to-canada-draft-resisters-and-the-underground-railroad-shannon-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Follow the North Star to Canada\u2019: Draft Resisters and the Underground Railroad (Shannon Lectures)"},"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<h3 id=\"november-27-2023-follow-the-north-star-to-canada-draft-resisters-and-the-underground-railroad\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23647\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-240x361.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-240x361.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-400x601.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-160x241.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster-360x541.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wendell-Nii-Laryea-Adjetey-poster.jpg 1430w\" alt=\"Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey poster\" width=\"240\" height=\"361\"><\/a><\/figure>November 27, 2023:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu_event\/shannon-lecture-4-with-wendell-adjetey\/\">\u2018Follow the North Star to Canada\u2019: Draft Resisters and the Underground Railroad<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>7 PM Woodside Hall in the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa and online.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu_event\/shannon-lecture-4-with-wendell-adjetey\/\">Register here<\/a>.<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"event__heading no-underline\">Wendell Adjetey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (<em>Nii Laryea Osabu I, Atr\u00e9kor Oblahii k\u00e8 Oblay\u00e9\u00e9 Mants\u00e8<\/em>) is William Dawson Chair and Assistant Professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at McGill University. Author of&nbsp;<em>Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America<\/em>&nbsp;(UNC Press, 2023), Dr. Adjetey is the recipient of McGill\u2019s H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Principal\u2019s Prize for Excellence in Teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[52],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-5122","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-upcoming"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2023-11-27T19:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2023-11-27T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","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":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5122","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5122\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}