Tammy C. Owens will discuss a chapter of her manuscript in progress. The chapter examines Harriet Jacobs’ slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Owens contends that the narrative is a key “site of speculation” for studying the history of black childhood. Owens argues that Jacobs humanizes enslaved black girls by illuminating three stages of enslaved girlhood.

To “capture the meaning of group destruction one must begin to decolonize the Eurocentric assumptions of genocide studies”, Andrew Woolford contends (2014, p. 33). Taking up his admonition, my dissertation project reticulates from memorial rides which enact horse-human kinship and nationhood in Oceti Sakowiŋ territory and temporality.