Tag: Emancipation


Dr. Kristopher Teters to Speak on “An Army of Liberation: How Western Union Officers Carried out and Felt about Emancipation during the Civil War”

Please join us on February 27, at Noon, to welcome Dr. Kristopher Teters for his lunch talk, “An Army of Liberation: How Western Union Officers Carried out and Felt about Emancipation during the Civil War.” Dr. Kristopher Teters earned his Ph.D. in 2012 at The University of Alabama, working with Dr. George Rable. The focus of his work is the Civil War era. His book, Practical Liberators, which came out in 2018, looks at the Union army and emancipation in the Western […]

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Dr. Celso Castilho – “Slave Emancipation and the Transformations in Political Belonging in Nineteenth-century Brazil”

Dr. Celso Castilho, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will deliver a lecture, titled “Slave Emancipation and the Transformations in Political Belonging in Nineteenth-century Brazil,” on Thursday, October 20, from 4-6pm in The Anderson Room (3125 Ferguson Center). Dr. Castilho is the author of Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship (2016), and the co-editor of Tornando-seLivre: agentes históricos e lutes socials no processo de abolição (2016). His current research examines the performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in […]

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