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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