Slavery and Freedom in the Making of America
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in 2013, the History Lecture Series presented four lectures by nationally recognized historians on the theme "Slavery and Freedom in the Making of America." The speakers considered the imagined roots of slavery in Greco-Roman antiquity, the origins and development of racial slavery across the Americas and its centrality to the creation of the United States, and the continued legacies of slavery in post-emancipation American life.