Historical Lecture Series #2 with Professor Brenda Stevenson, "Life in Black and White Reconsidered: Family and Community From Slavery into Freedom"

Start: 2/4/2012 9:00 am
End: 2/4/2012 11:30 am

Location: 2240 Old River Road, Ukiah CA

Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers & Community Members

Description:

Dr. Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas
of research and publication include African American history centered on slave women and family
during the colonial and antebellum eras; she has also written and lectured widely on the southern white
family (planters and yeomen), the free black family in the southern and northern United States, and the
contemporary African American family, particularly in the urban setting. Her books include Life in
Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996) and The Journals of Charlotte
Forten Grimke (1988). She currently is completing a book on slave women in the southern colonial
and antebellum United States and another book on multiethnic female relations in contemporary
American society.