Seldom Heard History of the Civil War Era (weekend lecture series)
Join us for a full weekend of intriguing presentations on “seldom heard” aspects of the American Civil War, with particular attention paid to the experience of free and enslaved black Americans during the conflict and after. A distinguished roster of authors and historians will deliver twelve talks in the comfortable Stanton Center Theater, located on Monterey’s historic Custom House Plaza. Books sales and signing on Saturday afternoon in the theater lobby.
Talks include:
—”Revisiting California’s Last Slave Case”;
—”Warriors are Entitled to the Honors They Win”: California’s African American Military Units in the Civil War and Reconstruction”;
—”Africa to Allensworth”: Understanding the truth regarding Africa’s suffering and her true contributions to America”
—”Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War”
—Stanford law professor William Gould, the first African-American faculty member at Stanford, and the former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in the Clinton Administration, will discuss the incredible story of is great-grandfather, an escaped slave who joined the U.S. Navy and finished the war on a Union warship.
—Civil War historian Gordon Rhea, the current Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, will be in conversation with a new-found distant cousin, Dr. James Angus, an African-American clergyman in Nashville whom he met after a commercial DNA program informed them of a common ancestor. They are descended from slaveowner and enslaved on the same Tennessee plantation, have now met each other’s families, and walked the grounds together where their ancestors lived.
