Launch / Essays on Freedom. 200 years after the abolition of Afro-descendant slavery in Chile.

Monday 04/22 12:30 PM hours → Casa Esperanza. Alberto Hurtado University Main Campus, Av. Bernardo O’Higgins #1825, Downtown Santiago.

«Essays on Freedom. 200 Years After the Abolition of Afro-descendant Slavery in Chile. From the Afro-Coquimbo Project: History After Oblivion.

Ediciones UAH, together with the Department of History, are organizing the presentation of this book whose theme has become highly relevant and has disproven theories of scant Afro-descendant population, demonstrating that their presence has been significant in different areas of Chilean society.

→ Participants

Elvira López Taverne. Assistant Professor, Institute of History UC.

Cristián Castro García. Director of the UDP School of History.

Rafael González Romero. Doctorate candidate in History from the University of Tarapacá, researcher for the Afro-Coquimbo Project: History After Oblivion.

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Pablo Toro-Blanco. Academic at the Department of History of the UAH.

→ Learn about the book