Lecture on Women’s Efforts to Gain Freedom from Slavery in America

Professor Barbara Krauthamer will present a lecture on Women’s efforts to gain freedom from slavery in America at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park’s theater on Saturday, April 30, 2016, from 3:00-4:30 PM. The park is located at 33 William Street, downtown New Bedford. Professor Krauthamer is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Admission is free. This event is sponsored by New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and the New Bedford Historical Society.

Professor Krauthamer is the author of many articles and two books on the history of slavery and emancipation. She has written Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, and is the co-author of Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. The latter book was awarded the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in non-fiction. Professor Krauthamer is currently working on a book about enslaved African and African American women’s efforts to gain their freedom during the era of American Revolution. Professor Krauthamer has received grants and awards from: the Association of Black Women Historians; the National Endowment for the Humanities; Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.