Fighting for Freedom: Black Activism in the Civil War
Friday September 17, 1P-2P
Online Event

Join us for a series of virtual presentations on Virginia history and culture from scholars across the state.

Historians Jonathan Berkey (professor of history, Concord University) and Jonathan Noyalas (director of Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute) discuss Black Activism in the Civil War–era Lower Shenandoah Valley. Through an examination of the experiences of enslaved people in the lower Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War’s first year and the "Bologna Riot" in Reconstruction-era Charles Town, West Virginia, Berkey and Noyalas will offer perspectives on the ways in which African Americans asserted themselves personally and politically in the complex environment of Virginia’s Lower Shenandoah Valley during a tumultuous decade that included civil war, emancipation, and political reconstruction.

Free and open to the general public.

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