Source Saturday: "Hanging of Angelique" with Dr. Walter Greason

Professor Dr. Walter Greason is thinking of turning Dr. Afua Cooper's book 'The Hanging of Angelique' into a graphic novel. In our conversation, we talk about this work as well as Dr. Greason's other work combining history, economics, and graphics together and discuss the transformative power of using new media to tell stories. 

For more on The Hanging Of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper see https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443406581/the-hanging-of-angelique/

To learn about Angelique see: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marie-joseph-angelique

Find the T. Thomas Fortune comic on The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/t-thomas-fortunes-profound-influence-civil-rights/583333/

More about 'Sojourners Trail': https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2019/11/17/learning-prof-walter-greasons-real-time-video-and-social-media

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See all the Source Saturday videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLpPhMEW_jxqClGskVJgNeA

More about Walter:

Dr. Walter D. Greason is a Dean Emeritus of the Honors School and an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Counseling and Leadership at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is author and lead editor on six books, with substantial contributions to another three and over a hundred of academic articles and essays. Dr. Greason is also the founding president of the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation, which led the restoration of the National Historic Landmark dedicated to the most militant journalist of the late nineteenth century. Most recently, he worked with Megan Allas, graphic artist, to design an interactive, educational game titled 'Sojourners Trail' that teaches about Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts Movement.

Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/

Order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We' today: https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831

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