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Thursday, December 7th, 2006 – 7:30 p.m.

Join us for an evening lecture as Dr. Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor of History, Brown University, discusses:

Abraham Lincoln, the Legacy of Slavery, and the Question of Reparations for Society and the University

Michael Vorenberg has taught at Brown University for seven years. Before arriving at Brown, he taught also at SUNY-Buffalo and Harvard University. He is the author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001), as well as numerous essays on Abraham Lincoln, law, and race. He is currently under contract to publish a document collection relating to the Emancipation Proclamation, and he is also at work on a major study of the impact of the Civil War on American citizenship.

This event is hosted by Saint Louis University in the Judith and Adam Aronson Gallery of the Saint Louis University Museum of Art.

The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE! For more information about this event, call SLUMA at 314.977.2666.

http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/

Committee report

http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf

Dr. Vorenberg was a member of this committee. His bio from the web page:

Michael Vorenberg is associate professor of history at Brown, where he teaches courses on the history of law, slavery, race, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. His published work includes Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment, as well as essays on black colonization efforts during the Civil War and on Abraham Lincoln's approach to slavery reparations. He is currently working on a history of the impact of the Civil War on American citizenship. Vorenberg taught at SUNY-Buffalo and Harvard University before coming to Brown.