{"id":23830,"date":"2022-03-24T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metcalfinstitute.org\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:35:56","slug":"slaves-for-peanuts-a-conversation-with-jori-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/slaves-for-peanuts-a-conversation-with-jori-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaves for Peanuts: A Conversation with Jori Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2022<br \/>\nNoon-1 p.m. Eastern<br \/>\nvia Zoom<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf Institute hosted a webinar with author, journalist, and Metcalf alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jorilewis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jori Lewis<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;about her forthcoming book, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/slaves-for-peanuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop that Changed History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when people are grappling with the enduring consequences of slavery, Lewis\u2019 book offers a new and revealing chapter in its global history. Together with journalist and fellow Metcalf alumnus,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moisesvm.com\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Moises Velasquez-Manoff<\/strong><\/a>, she discussed her work on the natural and human history of this crop that transformed millions of lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis\u2019s work fuses powerful storytelling and authoritative historical research, and she is adept at framing local events against a global backdrop.\u201d \u2014the Whiting Award Committee on&nbsp;<em>Slaves for Peanuts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Slaves for Peanuts<\/em>&nbsp;is a revelation.\u201d&nbsp;\u2014Imani Perry, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University, and author of Breathe<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audience Q&amp;A followed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2022 Noon-1 p.m. Eastern via Zoom Metcalf Institute hosted a webinar with author, journalist, and Metcalf alumna Jori Lewis&nbsp;about her forthcoming book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop that Changed History. At a time when people are grappling with the enduring consequences of slavery, Lewis\u2019 book offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":23832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[904],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24105,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions\/24105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}