ASC: Nemata Blyden

Nemata Blyden, Armstead L. Robinson Professor of 19th Century African American History and Chair of the Department of African American and African Studies, UVA. Author of African Americans and Africa: A New History (Yale, 2019) and West Indians in West Africa, 1808–1880: The Diaspora in Reverse (Rochester, 2000). Her current project is a family biography that tells the history of the Atlantic world through the eyes of a Black Atlantic family.