1619 or 1776: Was America Founded on Slavery?

CONSTITUTION DAY 2020 WEBINAR
with Leslie Harris (Northwestern) and Lucas Morel (Washington and Lee)

LESLIE HARRIS is Professor of History at Northwestern University, where her work focuses on complicating the ideas we all hold about the history of African Americans in the United States and finding ways to communicate these new ideas to the general public. She is author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 and editor of several volumes including Slavery in New York (2005) and Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (2019). She served as a fact-checker for the “1619 Project” published by the New York Times.

LUCAS MOREL is John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, where his work focuses on political philosophy and American politics, especially the thought of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Ralph Ellison. He is author of Lincoln and the American Founding (2020) and Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government (2000), and editor of two volumes on Ralph Ellison. He currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.

Sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Forum, Department of Political Science, and the Jack Miller Center

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