Sandy Spring Museum | Lecture Series

Lecture Series

Spring 2009

Fall 2009

Maurice Jackson

Kristen Block

Sat., Feb. 21, 11AM
"Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) and his struggle to end Quaker slaveholding"

Dr. Maurice Jackson, Associate Professor of history at Georgetown University and author of Let this Voice be Heard: Anthony Benezet Father of Atlantic Abolitionism.

Sat., Nov. 7, 11AM
"Cultivating Inner and Outer Plantations: Profit Industry and Slavery in Early Quaker Migration"

Dr. Kristen Block, Associate Professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, and a 2009 Fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University.

Kate Fawver

liam riordan

Thurs., Mar. 19, 6:30PM
"Black and White Households on the Thresholds of the American Revolution."

Dr. Kathleen Fawver, Associate Professor of history, California State University - Dominguez Hills.

Thurs, Nov. 19, 6:30PM
"Multicultural Early America? Placing Revolutionary Sandy Spring in a Mid-Atlantic Context"

Dr. Liam Riordan, Associate Professor of history, University of Maine and author of Many Identities, One Nation.

For Details of the 2010 Lecture Series

The Sandy Spring Museum's 2010 and 2009 lecture series are supported by a 2008 MD Humanities Council/PNC Bank Legacy grant.

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