Becca Aponte received the American Historical Association’s Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for Undergraduate Articles for her paper: “Inversion of the Top-Down Operation: Enslaved Voices and French Abolitionism in 1840s Senegal,” Herodotus 34 (Spring 2024).

The AHA remarked, “Becca De Los Santos’s impressive research in Senegal and France provides a nuanced view on the liberation of enslaved people in the French colony of Senegal. Using testimony from an 1844 commission report, De Los Santos puts the previously ignored voices of those enslaved in Senegal at the forefront of abolition. They proved to French authorities that instead of being a “benign” system, enslaved people in Senegal longed for freedom.”

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