Answers to questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the 13th Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and emancipation was a shifting but persistent struggle that involved thousands of men and women. A book signing will follow the program.
The speaker was introduced by David Ferriero, archivist of the United States.
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