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Susie King Taylor: A Legacy of Black Womanhood and Historic Preservation
26 June 2019.Wednesday, all day
Rebecca Byrd, UNC Charlotte
Susie King Taylor was not Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman. Although she does not have the ...
Susie King Taylor was not Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman. Although she does not have the notoriety of those two women, her story is no less important. As the first African American army nurse who traveled with the First South Carolina Volunteers during the Civil War, an educator for freed people, and founder of the Women’s Relief Corps., Ms. Taylor is truly a remarkable woman. Although she remains in an unmarked grave, a younger historian has been tasked to preserve her legacy into the digital age.
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Class Conflict, Political Violence and Coerced Oath-Taking In 1760s New England
17 July 2019.Wednesday, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Kevin Murphy/ SUNY Stony Brook
Colonial society generally considered sworn promises binding in any circumstance, even if made under ...
Colonial society generally considered sworn promises binding in any circumstance, even if made under duress. This lecture describes the ethical and social values which underwrote this assumption and how they were weaponized during the Imperial Crisis to transfer power from loyalist elites to the patriot “crowd”.
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Susie King Taylor was not Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman. Although she does not have the notoriety of those two women, her story is no less important. As the first African American army nurse who traveled with the First South Carolina Volunteers during the Civil War, an educator for freed people, and founder of the Women’s Relief Corps., Ms. Taylor is truly a remarkable woman. Although she remains in an unmarked grave, a younger historian has been tasked to preserve her legacy into the digital age.
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Colonial society generally considered sworn promises binding in any circumstance, even if made under duress. This lecture describes the ethical and social values which underwrote this assumption and how they were weaponized during the Imperial Crisis to transfer power from loyalist elites to the patriot “crowd”.
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