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PURCHASED LIVE
LECTURES
Erin M. Greenwald-Maurie Mclnnis Paired Lectures
Erin M. Greenwald, historian and curator of Purchased Lives will join Maurie Mclnnis, vice provost for academic affairs and professor of art history at the University ofVirginia for a lecture twin bill. Creenwald’s talk, “Taking on the Tough Stuff of History: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade,” will be complemented by Mclnnis’s, “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the American Slave Trade.”
Wednesday, April 15, 6-8 p.m.
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Free
“Finding Rebecca” Lecture
Mary Niall Mitchell, the Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, and associate professor of history at the University of New Orleans, presents “Finding Rebecca; or, How an Enslaved Girl from New Orleans Became an Abolitionist Icon.”
Wednesday, May 27, 6-7:30 p.m.
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Free
BOOK CLUB
Admission includes a tour of the Hermann-Grima House following the session. Sessions are limited to 12 participants each, so please register early by calling (504) 598-7171.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Discuss the harrowing true story of a free man captured and sold into slavery, one of the most important slave narratives of all time.
Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9,10 a.m.
533 Royal Street $15 admission
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams
The book examines the immediate and lasting cultural impact of slavery, tracing the efforts of newly freed slaves to relocate loved ones and rebuild their families.
Friday and Saturday, June 26 and 27,10 a.m.
533 Royal Street $15 admission
F American Slaves
by William Henry Brooke, engraver engraving from The Slave States of America, vol. 2
London: Fisher, Son and Company, 1842 2014.0450.2
G Greatcoat from the household of Dr. William Newton Mercer
between 1857 and 1865; w0°l with silver and pewter buttons and silk, wool, cotton, and linen lining
by Brooks Brothers, manufacturer 2073.0138
Spring 2015 Q