You are invited to the Alexandrian Society’s Spring Lecture on Wednesday, 27 April, at 4 p.m. in the VCU Student Commons Theater (907 Floyd Avenue). Free and open to the public 

Ibrahima Seck is a member of the History department of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal, whose research concerns the historical and cultural links between West Africa and Louisiana. 

Dr. Seck is also the director of research of the Whitney Heritage Plantation Museum, which is located between Wallace and Edgard in St. John the Baptist Parish in Louisiana. He is the author of a book on this historic site entitled “Bouki fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860. [New Orleans: UNO Press, 2014]. 

The Whitney Plantation is the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on slavery. Through the use of restored historic buildings, museums exhibits, memorial artwork and hundreds of first-person slave narratives, visitors are offered a unique perspective on the lives of Louisiana’s enslaved people. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Whitney Plantation is a genuine landmark built by African slaves and their descendants.

See you there.

John

John T. Kneebone
5107 Caledonia Road
Richmond, VA 23225
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804-231-1774

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