With the challenges of knowing Africans and taking into account contemporary American memories of Africa, slaving, and slavery thus introduced, participants will spend the seminar’s final week offering initial versions of their integrations of the materials that they have encountered in the seminar into their own research projects – in whatever format (draft manuscript, working prospectus, oral/visual presentation, media, and so on) they find most productive, at whatever stage their work will have reached. These will almost certainly be “works in progress”. A guest discussant, Professor Ekema Agbaw, a veteran of the 2005 “Roots” seminar and critic in 20078, will join us for two days.