{"id":17741,"date":"2024-08-28T10:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:06:23","slug":"17741","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2024\/08\/28\/17741\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of History and Department Co-chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/history\/faculty\/roy-finkenbine\">Roy Finkenbine<\/a>&#8216;s essay &#8220;Caesar (November 1774)&#8221; was published online in <a href=\"http:\/\/freedom-seekers.org\"><em>Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond<\/em><\/a>, a growing collection of short stories of enslaved people who attempted to seize their own freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Finkenbine&#8217;s essay follows an enslaved Virginian named Caesar, who took his freedom in 1774, finding sanctuary among the Shawnees and becoming a warrior in the fight of Indigenous peoples to hold on to the Ohio country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of History and Department Co-chair Roy Finkenbine&#8216;s essay &#8220;Caesar (November 1774)&#8221; was published online in Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[6164,6165,93,4209,1430,4701],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbwnTV-17741","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17762,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions\/17762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}