VA-HIST subscribers in Richmond may be interested in this lecture:

The keynote lecture of the 3rd annual Southern History of Science and 
Technology meeting will be delivered by Robert J. Malone, of the University of 
Florida and executive secretary of the History of Science Society.

The lecture, “Nature’s Enslavement in an Enslaved Land,” will be given on 
Friday, April 3, at 5:30 p.m. in the Main Auditorium, VCU School of Engineering, 
West Hall, 610 W. Main Street (across from Monroe Park). A reception will 
follow. This event is free and open to the public.

The lecture will examine science and slavery in the Old Southwest (Florida) 
during the late 18th century. Using the case of Scottish emigrant, explorer, 
and plantation owner, William Dunbar, a correspondent with, among others, 
Thomas Jefferson, and an explorer of lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase 
in advance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Malone will describe the state of 
early American science and how it developed in conjunction with slavery.

John 

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