On Thursday, May 23, Dr. Holly Brewer will join LancasterHistory, 230 N. President Ave., Lancaster, for a Regional History Colloquium, "Slavery and the Declaration of Independence." The program will take place in Ryder Hall. A speaker's reception will begin at 4 p.m., followed by the main presentation at 4:30 p.m. Brewer will discuss the anti-slavery sentiment in Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence and the vigorous debates it engendered.
Brewer is the Burke Professor of American History and an associate professor at the University of Maryland. She works on debates about justice in early America and the British Empire through the Revolutionary Period and into the 19th century. She is the author of "By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority," as well as the article "Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia." She is currently finishing a book on the ideological origins of slavery in early America and the British Empire for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required to guarantee a seat at the presentation. Readers may register by visiting http://www.lancasterhistory.org/lectures or calling 717-392-4633. Questions and accessibility requests may be directed to info@lancasterhistory.org or the aforementioned phone number.
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