When | Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 7 – 8:30 PM |
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Sponsor | Smithsonian Associates |
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Event Location | This online program is presented on Zoom. |
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Cost | Click here to view prices |
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Get Tickets/Register | smithsonianassociates.org… |
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Categories | After Five, Webcasts & Online |
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Details | The conventional wisdom that Christmas provided enslaved African Americans in the Civil War era with a respite from labor and punishment is wrong, says historian Robert E. May. He examines how slavery’s most punitive features persisted at holiday time and how false assumptions about slave Christmases later became harnessed to cultural myths that undergirded white supremacy in the United States. |
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