A Lunchtime Talk with Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 
Fellow Maurie D. McInnis

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, 12:00 PM - 1: 00 PM 
Charlottesville City Council Chambers 
City Hall 605 E. Main St. map it Charlottesville, VA 22901
Lectures are free and open to the public.


Professor Maurie McInnis will discuss her recently released book Slaves
Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade, focusing on
images created by a young British artist, Eyre Crowe, who visited Richmond
in the 1850s. Richmond was the largest slave-trading city in the upper
South. Her lecture will help recreate the geography of the slave-trading
district, an area now beneath I-95. Through public documents, early
photographic archives, and modern mapping, Professor McInnis has helped
recreate the neighborhood in word and in image. Only a couple of blocks from
Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia State Capitol building, the slave-trading
district, like so much of southern society, was the site of extreme
contrasts, between the height of luxury and extreme degradation, between
gaiety and misery, between freedom and slavery. Professor McInnis teaches
art history at UVA and is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences. She is the author of The Politics of Taste in Antebellum
Charleston (2005) and Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the
American Slave Trade (2011). For more information, contact Ann White Spencer
at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, aspencer@virginia, or visit
our web site www.VirginiaHumanities.org

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