News from the John W. Kluge Center: Register to Watch Wednesday - Visions and Realities of Black Freedom in the Nineteenth Century

Visions and Realities of Black Freedom in the Nineteenth Century

Join the John W. Kluge Center for an event exploring the ways that the United States grappled with the post-emancipation future for Black Americans.

This event will be viewable live on Zoom at 4pm on May 15.

Free registration is available here. There will be no in-person component for this event. A video will be available at loc.gov in the weeks following the event.

• Corey Brooks, York College of Pennsylvania (chair and moderator)

• Frank Cirillo, University of Michigan

• Myisha Eatmon, Harvard University

• Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania

In the years preceding and during the American Civil War, antislavery reformers began to imagine what a world without slavery might look like—what shape a post-emancipation society might take. As such ideas clashed with realities in the wake of wartime emancipation, activists came to understand the ways in which the struggles for Black freedom and justice would be ongoing.