"The Angola Link: The African Presence in Early Jamestown," a presentation by John K. Thornton and Linda M. Heywood, of Boston University, on Monday, April 23, 2007, at 2 p.m., at Virginia Commonwealth University's Student Commons, in the Richmond Salons III and IV, 907 Floyd Avenue.

The presentation is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Directions and parking information at: http://www.vcu.edu/maps

John K. Thornton is the author of several books, including Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 and Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800. Linda M. Heywood is the author of Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present. They are co-auhtors of the forthcoming book, Angolans in the Early Anglo-Dutch Atlantic, 1615-50. They served as consultants to the new exhibition gallery at the Jamestown settlement.

Sponsored by the Department of History and College of Humanities and Sciences of Virginia Commonwealth University.


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