From Black and White to Full Color

Date: March 5, 2009

From Black and White to Full Color: The Changing Interpretation of Slavery in the Mid-Atlantic!

Third Annual Symposium, Goucher College, April 7, 2009.

Join distinguished scholars and noted authors for “From Black and White to Full Color: The Changing Interpretation of Slavery in the Mid-Atlantic.” Held at Goucher College on April 7, this day-long symposium will explore how the interpretation of slavery has changed over the years and how “the peculiar institution,” as practiced in the Mid-Atlantic, differed from slavery in the Deep South.

Guest speakers include some of the most respected scholars in the field of slavery. We are honored to have Ira Berlin, P.h.D. as keynote speaker. Dr. Berlin is currently a professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Berlin has written extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the history of slavery. His first book, Slaves without Masters: the Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1975) won the Best First Book Prize awarded by the National Historical Society. Other works include: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Mainland North America and Generations of Captivity: A History of Slaves in the United States .

Topics include:

“What the Death of Slavery during the Civil War teaches about life under the Peculiar Institution” by Dr. Joseph P. Reidy. Dr. Reidy is a professor of History and an Associate Provost at Howard University.

“So that all Her Increase May be Free: Enslaved women and manumission in Maryland” by Dr. Jessica Millward
Dr. Millward is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include comparative slavery and emancipation, African-American history, and Women’s history.

“Wade in the Water,” a concert by the Society for the Preservation of African-American Arts. Located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the SPAAA singers will offer a lively concert exploring the historical genre of the Spiritual.

“African-American Women: Plantation Textile Production from 1750-1830, the Journey” by Karen Hampton. Karen Hampton teaches in the Fashion Merchandising program at Howard University. Ms. Hampton is a mixed media textile artist whose work is steeped in oral history.

Date: April 7, 2009
Location: Goucher College
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Registration fee (continental breakfast and lunch included): $45 (students and GBHA members $35)
Checks made to Historic Hampton, Inc., Visa/MasterCard accepted

To register
Call: 410-823-1309 Ext. 237
Fax:  [phone]
Write: Hampton NHS
          535 Hampton Lane
          Towson, MD 21286