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Foundry Series: Slavery from 1619 to the Civil War
Date(s)
- September 11, 2019 | 6:00 pm
How did the “peculiar institution” grow into a system that enslaved nearly 4 million individuals in 1860? Examine the origins and expansion of American slavery and how it pushed the nation into war nearly 250 years after the first documented Africans arrived in Virginia.
FEATURING
Ed Ayers, Ph.D., University of Richmond and
Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Ph.D., Norfolk State University
Alphonso F. Saville, IV, Ph. D, Georgetown University
Cost:
$10 general admission, $8 for members