Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Max Grivno (University of Southern Mississippi) will present his public lecture, “The Old Slave: History and Memory.” This presentation will take place in Room 108 within the Liberal Arts Building on USM’s campus in Hattiesburg. Reception to follow.
This lecture examines how Americans viewed the survivors of slavery from emancipation through the 1970s. Drawing upon a range of source—popular songs, children’s books and novels, and postcards—it shows how Americans made these old men and women into blank canvases, upon which they projected their own ideas about the nation’s history of race and slavery.