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 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html