Alaina E. Roberts

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Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

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Alaina E. Roberts Biography

Alaina E. Roberts is an award-winning associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies and writes about the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to the modern day.

Dr. Roberts is the author of "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land", which examines the history of the only people of African descent in the world to receive reparations for slavery—the symbolic "40 acres" of land. In the book, you'll also meet the Native Americans who enslaved these Black and mixed-race people as well as the white settlers who competed with them for land and governmental control in what is now Oklahoma.

"I've Been Here All the While" received the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize and the Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award and W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize. It was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.

Dr. Roberts has written for TIME magazine, High Country News, and the Washington Post, and her research has been featured in CNN, the Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other outlets.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/14/2024.

Alaina E. Roberts Speaking Topics

  • Strength in Diversity

    This talk uses an example of a moment from the past when people from different races and backgrounds could have come together in harmony to encourage strength in diversity in our present.

  • The diverse history of the West

    Did you know that Native Americans were the first settlers in many parts of the West? What about the fact that at least 25% of cowboys were Black men? Learn about the real history of the American West!

  • Native Americans and the Civil War

    Did you know Native Americans across North America fought in the Civil War? Learn how Native people fought for the Confederacy and for the Union, and why their reasons for doing so were both similar and distinctly different from those of white and Black Americans.

  • Juneteenth and the varieties of Black slavery and emancipation across North America

    Juneteenth (June 19) was only one day on which African Americans were emancipated. Learn about how people of African descent across North America found freedom at many different times, and in many different ways.

  • American history as family history

    Learn about the largely untold story of Black women and men owned as slaves by Native Americans through my family story—just one of many interesting ways American history is more complicated than you might think.

Alaina E. Roberts Videos

  • Black Labor, Native Land | The Real Wild West

Alaina E. Roberts Books

  • I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (America in the Nineteenth Century)
    I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land (America in the Nineteenth Century)

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Alaina E. Roberts is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Strength in Diversity, The diverse history of the West, Native Americans and the Civil War, Juneteenth and the varieties of Black slavery and emancipation across North America and American history as family history. The estimated speaking fee range to book Alaina E. Roberts for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Alaina E. Roberts generally travels from Pittsburgh, PA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Xernona Clayton, Yoruba Richen, Spirit Tawfiq, Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins and Monica Pearson. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Alaina E. Roberts for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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