Vanderbilt History Professor To
Lecture At WKU On April 7
March 30, 2004
Bowling Green, Ky. - Dr. Richard J. Blackett, a history professor at Vanderbilt University, will speak at Western Kentucky University on April 7.
Dr. Blackett, the WKU History Department's Harrison Distinguished Lecturer for 2003-2004, will lecture on "African Americans and the Anglo-American Abolitionist Movement" at 7:30 p.m. at Mass Media and Technology Hall Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
He also will present an afternoon seminar on "Researching Resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law" at 4 p.m. in Cherry Hall, room 210.
Dr. Blackett is a specialist in U.S. and Caribbean history, particularly of the transatlantic movements that worked to abolish slavery. His most recent book, "Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War," looks at popular reactions to the war in Britain and what impact they had on the struggle for political reform. He is at work on a study of the ways northern communities organized to resist the enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.
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