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Camp Nelson National Monument Winter Lecture Series
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 37.797386, -84.600257
Camp Nelson National Monument 6614 Danville Road, Loop 2 Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356
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Camp Nelson National Monument is launching our inaugural Winter Lecture Series starting in January 2022!
The special programs feature guest speakers who present on a topic related to the Civil War Era. The presentations will take place at the park on select Saturdays starting at 11:00am. The programs are free and open to the public.
March 26, 2022: Following the Paths of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery
Monument removals and recent debates over school curricula have all drawn unprecedented attention to the distortions and silences surrounding the history of race and slavery in the United States. This public reckoning has given the work of historians renewed urgency--and made the effort to uncover elements of the long-hidden past newly meaningful today. Dr. Amy Murrell Taylor, T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, will describe the work involved in researching the American Civil War’s slavery history, especially its collapse in a refugee crisis that unfolded here in Central Kentucky. The hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who fled slavery and sought refuge behind the lines of the Union army guaranteed the destruction of the institution once and for all. But it is only now, over 150 years later, that their experience is becoming visible and their names and identities known at places like Camp Nelson.
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Amy Taylor