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Oct 16: Public talk with Adam Rothman

Oct 16: Public talk with Adam Rothman

WhenOct 16, 2015
from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Where102 Weaver Building

Historians of slave emancipation during the Civil War must answer the question that W.E.B. DuBois posed eighty years ago. “Can we imagine this spectacular revolution?” In his new book, Beyond Freedom’s Reach, Adam Rothman rises to the challenge by telling the story of Rose Herera, an enslaved woman in New Orleans whose children were taken to Cuba against her will in 1863. Her struggle to recover the children from bondage reveals the revolutionary dynamics of wartime emancipation, as well as the possibilities of microhistory for imagining the past.

Adam Rothman is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. He is the author of Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery and Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, and several other essays and articles on topics ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Lafcadio Hearn.  In addition to his scholarship, he has written on slavery, the Civil War, and emancipation for the New York TimesDaily BeastAl Jazeera America, and Zócalo Public Square.

Talk is free and open to the public

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