Slave Breeding and Free Love: An Antebellum Argument over Slavery, Capitalism, and Personhood
When: Monday, September 27, 2010 4:30 PM
Where:
Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211
320 York St., New Haven, CT 06511
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
Tags: lecture
Speaker/Performer: Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
Description: Instead of joining the empirical debate among historians about the existence of slave breeding in antebellum America, this talk explores the moral argument between abolitionists and slaveowners over that potent question, and in so doing illuminates why sensual love mattered so deeply in the antagonism between slavery and freedom.
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Sponsor(s): The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Contact Information:
Gilder Lehrman Center
203-432-3339
gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
http://www.yale.edu/glc/index.htm
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