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Please join VFH Fellow Deborah A. Lee on Tuesday, March 29, from 4 until

5:30 p.m. for her seminar "Opposition to Slavery in Northern Virginia 
1810-1865."  Lee, an independent scholar and historian, will present her

seminar in the downstairs conference room at the Virginia Foundation for

the Humanities (VFH).

March 29 (Tuesday)                      	
Opposition to Slavery in Northern Virginia 1810-1865
VFH Fellow Deborah A. Lee
Independent Scholar, Historian
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
4:00-5:30 p.m.

From 1816 through general emancipation in 1865, white activists from
northern Virginia (Fairfax, Loudoun, Frederick, Jefferson, and Berkeley 
counties) were leaders in the national antislavery movement. These men
and 
women promoted gradual emancipation through moral suasion and were
fairly 
effective into the 1840s, according to Lee; however, as slavery became a

more contentious issue, white leaders receded from the field of public 
protest. At that point, African American men, born and raised in the
same 
area during the 1810s and 1820s, became leaders in the abolition
movement 
and Underground Railroad. Lee explores the relationships between these 
black and white, male and female activists, and their shared traits:
their 
tendency to be go-betweens, working with people of both races; their 
morally exemplary lives and advocacy; and their commitment to ending 
slavery through practical and moderate means. Lee argues that together,
in 
various ways, these northern Virginians furthered the antislavery
movement.

Lee will explore the philosophies and strategies of the following 
activists: Ann Randolph Page, mistress of a large slaveholding estate
and 
emancipator; William Meade, Bishop of Virginia; Margaret Mercer,
educator; 
and Quakers Samuel Janney, antislavery essayist,  and Yardley Taylor,
who 
assisted people fleeing from bondage; Martin R. Delany, physician and 
pan-Africanist; Leonard A. Grimes, pastor of Twelfth Baptist
"Fugitives'" 
Church in Boston; and John W. Jones, a key station-master on the 
Underground Railroad in Elmira, New York.

VFH Fellows seminars are held at the Virginia Foundation for the 
Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, Virginia. All
presentations 
begin at 4 p.m. and are followed by refreshments and an informal time
for 
discussion and questions.

Directions to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: From the
North, 
South, and East: take I-64 or Route 29 to 250 West. Take 250 West to the

Boar's Head Inn. Turn left at the Boar's Head Inn sign. Make your first 
left, before the Inn. Come to the top of the small hill. The VFH is on
the 
left. From the West: Take I-64 East to 29 North. Take 250 West. Follow 
directions above.

Please contact me if you need additional information.

Ann White Spencer
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Phone: 434 243 5526
Fax: 434 296 4714
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903

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