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Between Two Indepence Days: the Founders, Lincoln & the Necessity of Emancipation
June 27 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
BETWEEN TWO INDEPENDENCE DAYS: THE FOUNDERS, LINCOLN & THE NECESSITY OF EMANCIPATION
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 @ 11 AM
Wyndham Garden Hotel – YORKTOWN ROOM
201 water country parkway Williamsburg 23185
Join author and historian Glenn David Brasher as he analyzes the pivotal window between July 4, 1861, and July 4, 1862, and uncover the specific military pressures that forced a pragmatic president into becoming the “Great Emancipator.” Guided by his interpretation of the Founders’ intent, Abraham Lincoln held lifelong antislavery views, but they underwent a radical transformation during the first year of the Civil War.
Program is $5/member & $10/NON-MEMBER
More info & RSVP HERE
Presented by The Williamsburg Battlefield Association
Dr. Brasher is instructor of history at the University of Alabama. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, he received his PhD from the University of Alabama. For eight years he was a seasonal park ranger at the Richmond National Battlefield Park where he gave tours on many of the historic sites associated with the Peninsula Campaign. He has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a regular contributor to The Civil War Monitor. In 2008 he was a finalist for the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Award and is the 2013 recipient of the Wiley-Silver Award from the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi for his book The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation (UNC Press, 2012).
