Professor Joseph P. Reidy will discuss how emancipation was not just a product of Lincoln’s proclamation or Confederate defeat. It was a process. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did it fulfill every dream of the enslaved or their allies. It unfolded unevenly--bringing drastic change, sensations of disorientation, and lives disrupted---but through it all, formerly enslaved people maintained the ideal that the struggle for freedom would result in victory.
A book signing follows the program.
The speaker was introduced by Douglas Swanson, from the National Archives.
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