Audience
Please join the Center for the Study of Democracy, the St. Mary's Historical Society and the SMCM History Department for a talk by Georgetown Professor of History Chandra Manning: "A Dangerous Time in a Perilous Place: Uneasy Alliances in Civil War Era Southern Maryland."
Time & Date: 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 22
Place: Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Description:
By the end of the Civil War, half-a-million formerly enslaved people had taken refuge with the Union Army and forged a wary alliance that won the war, ended slavery and remade citizenship for all Americans. Yet this biracial alliance between formerly enslaved people and Union authorities was especially fraught with fear and violence in Maryland. From kidnapping, to intimidation, to property destruction, to murder, this talk will explore threats that this uneasy alliance faced in southern Maryland, the strategies that Black Marylanders used to counter the threats and the ways in which the story is and is not remembered today.
Event Sponsor(s)
Center for the Study of Democracy, the Historically Speaking Series, and the Department of History