Join Author Melvin Patrick Ely for a discussion of

"From the Old South to Amos 'n' Andy: Finding the Unexpected in America's
Racial Past"

Wednesday, 16 January at Noon

At the Library of Virginia in Historic Downtown Richmond

A book signing will follow.

Mel Ely is Professor of History and Black Studies at the College of William
and Mary. He is the author of The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social
History of an American Phenomenon, recently issued in paperback by the
University Press of Virginia, and the forthcoming, Israel on the Appomattox:
A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom, 1796-1870. The latter book concerns
the history of Israel Hill, a free black community near Farmville, Virginia,
and is based on Ely's painstaking research in the pre-Civil War records of
Prince Edward County, held at the Library of Virginia.

It should be interesting. For more information, contact the Library of
Virginia at 804/692-3592.

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