The Royall House & Slave Quarters welcomes Tufts University’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and the Tufts Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice for a lecture and conversation on slavery, its legacies, and the medical humanities. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Jim Downs, author of “Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine” and “Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction.” A deeply interdisciplinary scholar of race, gender, slavery, epidemiology, climate, and the history of medicine, Downs has advised Tufts’ new initiative on Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies at Tufts. He will be joined in conversation by Tufts scholars Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Dr. Kerri Greenidge and Dr. Kendra Field, and hosted by RHSQ Executive Director Kyera Singleton. Register through Eventbrite.