Please join us at 3pm on Monday, December 9th for a virtual presentation, “Freedom and Slavery at Delaware College: A Student Research Symposium.” (registration required)

At this online event, students and faculty from the Fall 2024  interdisciplinary seminar "Race & Inequality in Delaware" will present new and updated research on the history of Delaware College (the predecessor institution of the University of Delaware) during the  antebellum period, c.1830s-1850s. Using materials from Special Collections in Morris Library and University Archives, students have investigated Delaware College's ties to slavery and its relationship to neighboring communities of African Americans, free and unfree.

The University of Delaware is a member of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, a group of over one hundred educational institutions sharing best practices as they engage in truth-telling educational projects. This class is the latest in a series of team-taught research seminars examining the history of slavery and dispossession in Delaware's past, and addressing its legacies in the present. (For prior student research on these topics, see the UDARI Legacies Committee site.)  

This event will be recorded.