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Dr. James Illingworth has been on the staff of the University of Mayland’s History Department Freedmen and Southern Society Project since 2015 and is currently an associate editor. He received his PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz; his research and writing focuses on slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Illingworth is the lead editor for a forthcoming volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation that examines family and kinship among formerly enslaved people in the immediate aftermath of emancipation.

Guest Historian Speaker Series - Introduction to the Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Ticket Price: $5R/$7NR, Free for Montpelier HM Members
Age: Ages 16 and up

Event Programs & Series: Black History Month Montpelier House Museum