JCHS HISTORY PROGRAM: Slavery on Missouri’s Border

Join author Dr. Diane Mutti-Burke in a discussion on early slavery in Missouri based upon her books, On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 and Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border (co-authored with Jonathan Earle). Learn about the impact that slavery had on smaller households through a journey of both geography and scale. Book signing and optional historical building tour available afterward. The City of Independence Tourism Department will also debut its brochure, “African-American Historic Sites in Independence, Missouri,” highlighting sites connected to the history of the African-American community of Independence, Missouri.

WHEN: Saturday, June 21, 2014
TIME: 1-3 p.m.
LOCATION:
Historic Truman Courthouse
112 W Lexington Ave
Independence, MO 64050
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