Below Decks in the Covenant: Blackness in Two Row Tradition
The Anti-Racism Committee in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Western University is pleased to present a visit with Dr. Phanuel Antwi. Dr. Phanuel Antwi, Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies at the University of British Columbia
"Below Decks in the Covenant: Blackness in the Two Row Tradition"
3 March 2022, 11:30AM ZOOM (link to register below)
In this talk, I investigate the unacknowledged presence of Black people in the peace-making arrangements between the Six Nations and colonial powers such as the Dutch and the British that is widely known as the Covenant Chain and the Two Row Wampum agreements. My aim is to ask what future prospects for “peace, friendship, and respect” might emerge when we admit that Black people were below decks in the sailing ships of Europeans who were working out protocols with Haudenosaunee canoists about how to share the river of life on Turtle Island.
