Oran Kennedy
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. O.P. Kennedy
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- o.p.kennedy@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2399-6547
Oran Kennedy is lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.
Research
My research focuses on slave refugees in the North and Canada, 1800-1860. It examines the motivations behind slave flight to the North and Canada, the networks that facilitated escape, the settlement processes of slave refugees in their new environment, and the impact of slave flight on local, national, and international discussions of slavery. By applying a social-historical approach, it hopes to provide a continental perspective on refugee migration. My research is part of dr. Damian Pargas' NWO Vidi project Beacons of Freedom: Slave Refugees in North America, 1800-1860.
Teaching activities
Teaching responsibility in second and third year.
Curriculum vitae
BA Modern History and Politics, Queen's University Belfast
MA U.S. History, Queen's University Belfast
Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Kennedy O.P. (2022), Review of: Churchill R.H. (2020) The underground railroad and the geography of violence in antebellum America, American Nineteenth Century History 22(3): 336-337.
- Kennedy O.P. (2021), To aid in the extinction of slavery: Canada’s antislavery movement and the formation of transnational abolitionist connections in North America. ESSHC: European Social Science History Conference 2021 24 March 2021 - 27 March 2021.
- Kennedy O.P. (28 January 2021), Northward bound: Slave refugees and the pursuit of freedom in the Northern US and Canada, 1775-1861 (Dissertatie. Leiden University Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Pargas D.A., Glynn I.
- Kennedy O.P. (2020), Slave refugees, self-emancipation, and the evolving landscape of freedom in the United States and Canada, Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift 35(3): 17-37.
- Kennedy O.P. (2019), “The strong cords of affection": enslaved African-American families and escape to the U.S. North and Canada, 1800-1861. In: Farrington J., Powell N.W., Graham G., Day L. & Anyanwu O.E. (Eds.) Slavery to liberation: the African American experience. Richmond, KY: Eastern Kentucky University. 53-73.
- Kennedy O.P. (2018), The Means of Our Elevation: Black Settlement, Education, and the Search for Independence in the Midwest and Upper Canada, 1820-1861. N.W. Posthumus Institute Conference 24 May 2018 - 25 May 2018.
- Kennedy O.P. (2018), The means of our elevation: black settlement, education, and uplift in the Midwest and Upper Canada, 1820-1861. British American Nineteenth Century Historians 5 October 2018 - 7 October 2018.
- Kennedy O.P. (2018), Impelled Migrations: Black Refugees, Insecurity, and the Search for Independence in Upper Canada, 1820-1860. European Social Science History Conference 4 April 2018 - 4 April 2018.
- Kennedy O.P. (2018), The Means of Our Elevation: Black Settlement, Education, and the Search for Independence in the Midwest and Upper Canada, 1820-1861.
- Kennedy O.P. (2017), Self-emancipation, illegal and legal freedom in the revolutionary Mid-Atlantic. Slavery and the Americas Masterclass 17 March 2017 - 17 March 2017.
- Kennedy O.P. (2016), Beacons of Freedom: Slaves Refugees in the Northern States and Canada,1800- 1860. N.W. Posthumus Institute ‘Work in Progress’ Seminar 1 April 2016 - 1 April 2016.
- Kennedy O.P. (2016), In Search of Freedom: Transnational Black Migrations Between the United States and Canada, 1775-1860.
- Kennedy O.P. (2016), Slavery and Freedom in Nova Scotia After the American Revolution.
- Kennedy O.P. (2016), A beacon of freedom? Black migration to Canada, 1830-1860. British Association of American Studies 7 April 2016 - 9 April 2016.
- Kennedy O.P. (2015), Beacons of freedom: slave refugees in the Northern States and Canada, 1800-1860. N.W. Posthumus Institute ‘My Project in a Nutshell’ Seminar 8 December 2015 - 9 December 2015.
- Kennedy O.P. (2015), Confederate Veteran magazine and white southern memories of the US Civil War. Barnes Club Graduate Student History Conference 27 March 2015 - 28 March 2015.