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Join us in welcoming Dr. Juliet E. K. Walker from the University of Texas at Austin. Her lecture is part of our initiative to examine the history and legacy of Black entrepreneurship in the United States.
Juliet E. K. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also the founding director of the Center of Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. Her scholarship has provided the foundation for recognizing black business history as a subfield in African American history.
She is author of the first comprehensive book on black business history, The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (1998)
and Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier (1983) detailing entrepreneurial activities of slave-born Frank (1777–1854).
Free Frank is Professor Walker's slave-born great-great grandfather whose business activities, first as a slave, and then after purchasing his freedom in 1819, would eventually buy a total of 16 family members from slavery from profits made from his business enterprises on the Kentucky and Illinois frontiers. Free Frank's mother was African-born, his father was the slaveholder. Free Frank was still a slave when he made his first family purchase, his wife Lucy, in 1817 from profits made as a slave entrepreneur. His business enterprise, processing salt petre--the principal ingredient used in the manufacture of gun powder. Free Frank was the subject of Professor Walker's doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, where she studied under the eminent scholar historian Dr. John Hope Franklin.
Dr. Walker is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Business History (1999) and the author of some ninety articles and scholarly essays.
African American Business, Entrepreneurship and Capitalism, 1619-2021: Where Do We Go From Here?
04/01/21Join us in welcoming Dr. Juliet E. K. Walker from the University of Texas at Austin. Her lecture is part of our initiative to examine the history and legacy of Black entrepreneurship in the United States.
Speaker Bio
Juliet E. K. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also the founding director of the Center of Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. Her scholarship has provided the foundation for recognizing black business history as a subfield in African American history.
She is author of the first comprehensive book on black business history, The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (1998)
and Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier (1983) detailing entrepreneurial activities of slave-born Frank (1777–1854).
Free Frank is Professor Walker's slave-born great-great grandfather whose business activities, first as a slave, and then after purchasing his freedom in 1819, would eventually buy a total of 16 family members from slavery from profits made from his business enterprises on the Kentucky and Illinois frontiers. Free Frank's mother was African-born, his father was the slaveholder. Free Frank was still a slave when he made his first family purchase, his wife Lucy, in 1817 from profits made as a slave entrepreneur. His business enterprise, processing salt petre--the principal ingredient used in the manufacture of gun powder. Free Frank was the subject of Professor Walker's doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, where she studied under the eminent scholar historian Dr. John Hope Franklin.
Dr. Walker is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Business History (1999) and the author of some ninety articles and scholarly essays.
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