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    This document provides information about a talk given by Richard Rath titled "Briton Hammon and the Sonic Dimensions of Atlantic Communication Networks". The talk discusses Rath's academic focus on the roots and routes of African culture in the Americas. It explores the narrative of Briton Hammon, an African American sailor whose 13-year journey frustrates typical narratives by leaving his roots uncertain. Hammon's story offers insight into the daily workings of plural, multi-tiered communication networks in the Atlantic world during the mid-18th century. By listening to Hammon's narrative and considering historical context, the talk seeks to understand these radical trans-Atlantic networks and the negotiated, relational identities within them.

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    This document provides information about a talk given by Richard Rath titled "Briton Hammon and the Sonic Dimensions of Atlantic Communication Networks". The talk discusses Rath's academic focus on the roots and routes of African culture in the Americas. It explores the narrative of Briton Hammon, an African American sailor whose 13-year journey frustrates typical narratives by leaving his roots uncertain. Hammon's story offers insight into the daily workings of plural, multi-tiered communication networks in the Atlantic world during the mid-18th century. By listening to Hammon's narrative and considering historical context, the talk seeks to understand these radical trans-Atlantic networks and the negotiated, relational identities within them.

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    Roots&Routes:Mobility,Migration,andDiasporas (20132014)

    BritonHammonandtheSonicDimensions ofAtlanticCommunicationNetworks

    RichardRath
    AssociateProfessor UniversityofHawai`iMnoa

    FridayFebruary14th;2:304:00pm HistoryDepartmentLibrary 2530DoleStreet,SakamakiHallA201


    Throughout my academic career I have been concerned with roots, then routes when it comes to African culture in the Americas. The narrative of Briton Hammon, an African American from New England who went to sea and had a thirteen year adventure/travail, frustrates that wellworn path, leaving Hammon's roots a place where speculation will have to suffice. In foreclosing the habitual, however, Hammon offers us a window into the daytoday workings of plural, multitiered communication networks in the Atlantic world. By listening to Hammon's narrative as well as looking at history , we can hear the murmurs and reverberations of the radical transAtlantic communication networks that Julius Scott, JeffreyBolster,andPeterLinebaughandMarcusRedikerhaveoutlinedwhilehearingupclose theconstantperformancesofnegotiated,relationalselvesembeddedwithinthosenetworks. In doing so, we can begin to flesh out the meanings of the networks too, their limits and possibilities for a man like Hammon and those he engaged with in the multiethnic, transnationalspacethatwasthemideighteenthcenturyAtlanticworld.

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