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THE LOS ANGELES INSTITUTE FOR
THE HUMANITIES WELCOMES
TOM ZOELLNER
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020; 12 P.M. TO 2 P.M.
AT USC’S DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY RM. 241
LAIH FELLOW TOM ZOELLNER, author of Island on
Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the
British Empire, published in May 2020,
provides an account of the 1831-32 slave
revolt that unexpectedly made the final case
for abolition throughout the British Empire.
While the rebels lost their military gamble,
their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle
for freedom in the British Atlantic. The daring
and suffering of the Jamaicans galvanized
public opinion throughout the empire,
triggering a decisive turn against slavery. For
centuries bondage had fed Britain’s appetite
for sugar. Within two years of the Christmas
rebellion, slavery was formally abolished.
Zoellner is the author of seven nonfiction
books, including the forthcoming The
National Road: Dispatches from a Changing
America (Counterpoint Press, October 2020).
He is the co-author of the New York
Times bestselling book An Ordinary Man, and
his book Uranium won the 2011 Science
Writing Award from The American Institute of
Physics. Tom has worked as a reporter for
the San Francisco Chronicle and The Arizona
Republic, and as a contributing editor
for Men’s Health magazine. He is now
an associate professor of English at Chapman
University and the politics editor at the Los
Angeles Review of Books. Tom is a founding
member of the journalism collective Deca,
and a teacher in the OpEd Project.
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