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Symposium on Free State Slavery Opening Keynote Address

March 16, 2023
at 4:45pm
– 5:45 pm

Andrew Diemer, Associate Professor of History at Towson University, will deliver the opening keynote address for the Symposium on Free State Slavery entitled “The Underground Railroad and the Struggle for the ‘Free’ State of Pennsylvania” on Thursday, March 16th in Foster Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

Diemer has taught at Towson University since 2011. He received his PhD from Temple University and is the author of The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 (Georgia, 2016) and Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad (Knopf, 2022).