ISSUED: 28 April 2021
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Shepherd University’s George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War (GTMC) has rescheduled “A Grinding Curse—Race and Slavery in the Shenandoah Valley” for Wednesday, May 19, at 6:30 p.m. on its Facebook page. The event is free and audience participation and questions will be encouraged.
Dr. James Broomall, GTMC director, will moderate the discussion. The panel will include Dr. Timothy Fritz, Mount St. Mary’s University; Kristen Laise, executive director, Belle Grove Plantation; Matthew Greer, Syracuse University Ph.D. candidate; and Jonathan Noyalas, director, McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University.
The panel discussion will focus on how slavery was viewed in the Shenandoah Valley given the large population of slaves and whether those views were different from the rest of Virginia. Panelists will also explore whether the enslaved lives were vastly different from those living east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, how they interacted with Union soldiers during the Civil War, and how their lives changed during Reconstruction and beyond. Audience participation and questions will be encouraged.
For more information, contact Tim Ware, GTMC administrative assistant, at tware04@shepherd.edu.
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