News from the John W. Kluge Center: TODAY at 4pm: Tamika Nunley on The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, & Clemency in Early Virginia

Join the us tomorrow for a conversation with Tamika Y. Nunley, award-winning social historian, Associate Professor of History at Cornell University, and Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Kluge Center.

This event will take place today, Wednesday, July 19 at 4pm ET.

Free registration to watch in-person or virtually is available here. Registration is for viewing virtually on Zoom or in-person in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress

Nunley will discuss her newest book, The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, & Clemency in Early Virginia. In it, she looks at cases of enslaved women charged by their owners with capital crimes, and the ways that even clemency could be a punishment for the accused.