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Join guest speaker Nick Mayer as he explores the use and abuse of non-Christian material objects, practices and agents in acts of resistance to slavery with particular focus on Martin Delany’s novel “Blake or The Huts of America”. In the broad spectrum of the antebellum landscape, Black radical activists like Delaney expressed ambivalence towards superstitious (or “fetish”) practices amongst slaves in the United States.