Jefferson And Slavery Topic For W&L Talk
Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, will discuss her book, “Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery” (2024), at Washington and Lee University at 5:30 p.m. on June 12 in Stackhouse Theater, located in Elrod Commons.
The event, hosted by W&L’s Office of Lifelong Learning in partnership with the Rockbridge Historical Society, is free and open to the public.
Stevens’ research focuses on race and slavery in the Jeffersonian Age. Her recent book examines what Jefferson did — and did not do - to end slavery and bring equality to America.
The book received the Herbert J. Storing Book Prize, was a finalist for the Center for Presidential History’s Book Prize, a runner-up for the Journal of the American Revolution’s Book of the Year award, and a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s George Washington Prize. Stevens’ work has also been published by the Journal of Southern History and American Political Thought.
Stevens’ lecture is part of the Office of Lifelong Learning’s Summer College program, “America at 250: The Founding of an Independent Nation.” Registration is required to attend additional Summer College programming, held June 12-15 on W&L’s campus: https://www.wlu.edu/alumni/lifelong- learning/campus-programs/ summer-college-i-the-foundingof- an-independent-nation-at-250.
