Most subscribers to Va-Hist are probably also members of the Virginia
Historical Society and therefore subscribers to the Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography, wherein they will recall seeing Ellen Eslinger's
article, "Freedom Without Indepenence: The Story of a Former Slave and
Her Family" last summer in the second issue of volume 114.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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Subject: Yale lecture: Free Blacks of the Shenandoah

For any Virginians who happen to be in the Yale vicinity on Jan 29:

Rural Free Black Society from the Age of Jefferson through the Civil War
Ellen Eslinger, DePaul University Monday, January 29, 2007, 12:00 p.m.
Luce Hall, Room 103, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Ellen Eslinger, Professor of History at DePaul University and
postdoctoral fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, presents a study of
antebellum free blacks set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a
prosperous region of the upper South, and provides a rural
counter-weight to numerous studies of free blacks in Southern cities.
This lecture is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center Brown Bag Lunch
Series. Bring your own lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert.

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