Everyone,

The lecture announced below is free and open to the public. The West Broad Street parking deck is adjacent to the Grace Street Theater, and there is parking on the street, too.

The College of Humenities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University presents the 200702008 Science, Technology, and Society Lecture Series on Rave, Ethnicity, and Medicine.

Marie Jenkins Schwartz, of the University of Rhode Island, will discuss her book, Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. at the Grace Street Theater. 934 West Grace Street, Richmond.

Her first book, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South, won the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize for Best Book in Southern Women's History.

For additional information, please contact: Dr. Karen Rader, (804) 828-9642 or [log in to unmask]

Best,

John

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