Join us for a discussion with
Christy Clark-Pujara, PhD, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, UW-Madison. She is the
author of Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island, NYU Press.
Free and enslaved Black people lived, labored, and raised families on the Wisconsin frontier; they called Prairie du Chien, Racine, Green Bay, Lancaster, Milwaukee, and Menominee home. Yet their stories remain largely untold. Black Americans were a tiny minority in Wisconsin territory and later the state; nevertheless, the practice of race-based slavery and anxieties about Black migrants led white Wisconsinites to dispute abolition and the rights of Black residents. In the mid-nineteenth century, fugitive slaves passing through Wisconsin were often met with assistance, while Black permanent residents were politically and socially ostracized. Black freedom was contested in Wisconsin before the state existed and Africans were steadfast in the pursuit of liberty from the colonial period through the modern civil rights movements.
If you have preliminary questions for the speaker, please send to Program Coordinator Michael Bernard-Donals at michael.bernarddonals@wisc.edu and Tom Eggert at tleggert@wisc.edu by Wednesday, September 27.
THIS SEMINAR WILL NOT BE RECORDED.
Food Pantry Contributions:
Checks payable to UW-Foundation, with "Open Seat" on the memo line may be mailed to UWRA, 21 North Park Street, Room 7205, Madison, WI 53715-1218.
Registration Deadline: Friday, September 29, 2023.
Registration:
Advance registration is required. You are encouraged to register online. To register by phone or email, call the Association office. If you or your guest registered for this seminar but cannot attend, please cancel your registration online, or email/call the UWRA office.
NOTE: The weblink and virtual call information will be included in the meeting reminders registrants receive.
UW-Madison Retirement Association
21 N Park St, Room 7205
Madison WI 53715-1218
608-262-0641
retireassn@mailplus.wisc.edu
