Revolution by Fire: New York’s Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741

Tuesday November 19, 2024

12.30pm ET/5.30pm Irish time

As part of the Black, Brown and Green Voices series from African American Irish Diaspora Network we present a public interview with acclaimed American historian Marcus Rediker and artist David Lester about Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel (Beacon Press, 2024). See: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757652/revolution-by-fire-by-marcus-rediker/

Based on the little known real life “Slave Insurrection” of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial social order.

Black, Brown and Green Voices represents a documentation strategy and public humanities initiative which aims to amplify the diversity of the Irish diaspora by recording interviews with Black and Brown Irish Americans and those who speak to the Black experience in Ireland and the Irish diaspora. This program is presented by African American Irish Diaspora Network in conjunction with NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The John Brademas Center of NYU and NYU's Office for Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation.

Introductions to the program will be provided by NYU Gallatin's Kimberly DaCosta, author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press, 2007). 

The Black, Brown and Green Voices programs are presented with generous support of the Irish government’s Emigrant Support Program. 

Registration here!