PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Mary Amelia Taylor
maryamelia.taylor@archives.alabama.gov or (334) 353-4692
FOOD FOR THOUGHT LUNCHTIME LECTURE AT THE ARCHIVES ON
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 AT 12:00 PM
ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENTS IN THE NATIVE AND EARLY AMERICAN SOUTH
PRESENTED BY CHRISTINA SNYDER
Montgomery, AL (06/04/2024) – The Alabama Department of Archives & History (ADAH) will continue its 2024 Food for Thought lunchtime lecture series on Thursday, June 20th, at 12:00pm CT. Christina Snyder will present Anti-Slavery Movements in the Native and Early American South. The program will be held in the ADAH’s Joseph M. Farley Alabama Power Auditorium in Montgomery. It will also be livestreamed on the ADAH’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Admission is FREE.
Snyder will discuss early attempts by colonists and Native peoples to prohibit or abolish slavery in the early colony of Carolina and how those movements shaped the colonial South. Influenced by Spain’s anti-slavery measures, the Lords Proprietors who ruled Carolina on behalf of England’s King Charles II banned Indigenous enslavement there. Colonists openly defied them, and Native nations devastated by human trafficking also took action during the Yamasee War, which nearly destroyed colonial South Carolina.
Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State University. Snyder is the author of Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (2017) and Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (2010). Her books have received a wide range of accolades, including the Francis Parkman Prize, the John H. Dunning Prize, the James H. Broussard Prize, and the John C. Ewers Prize. With the support of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Snyder is working on her third book, American Abolitions: The Slow Death and Many Afterlives of Slavery.
For additional information, contact Alex Colvin at alex.colvin@archives.alabama.gov or (334) 353-4689. A complete schedule of our 2024 lunchtime lecture series is available at archives.alabama.gov. Food for Thought 2024 is sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Friends of the Alabama Archives.
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the state’s government-records repository, a special-collections library and research facility, and home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum. It is located in downtown Montgomery, directly across Washington Avenue from the State Capitol. The Museum of Alabama is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. The EBSCO Research Room is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. To learn more, visit www.archives.alabama.gov or call (334) 242-4364.
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