The forum featured scholars Paul Finkelman of the University of Tulsa College of Law, Patrick Breen of the University of Georgia and John Stauffer of Harvard. This event is part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies Open House in celebration of Yale's Tercentennial . Co-sponsored with the African Studies Department. The conference, to be held at the Omni Hotel, is dedicated to investigating how states have chosen historically to defend themselves by providing their slaves with weapons. This paradoxical practice was often resorted to even when it challenged the ideological underpinnings of societies or contributed to the downfall of prosperous regimes.
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