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Webinar: Plantation Histories and the University: Rethinking the Past During Virginia Tech's 150th
Venue: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Time: 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Tech Department of History presents the seminar "Plantation Histories and the University: Rethinking the Past During Virginia Tech's 150th" on Zoom on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.

Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus occupies land that was once worked by dozens of enslaved people. The oldest building on campus, Solitude, is a former plantation home. Smithfield, another plantation owned by members of the same slaveholding family, sits adjacent to campus and now operates as a museum.

As Virginia Tech commemorates its 150th anniversary, join our distinguished panel of speakers to discuss the intertwined histories of Solitude, Smithfield, and Virginia Tech, and how those histories are being re-imagined during the sesquicentennial.

The panel features Victoria Ferguson (Director/Docent for the Solitude-Fraction Site); Kerri Moseley-Hobbs (Executive Director of the More Than A Fraction Foundation and Fraction family descendant); Ryan Spencer (Executive Director, William Preston's Smithfield); and Daniel B. Thorp (Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech and author of "In the True Blue's Wake: Slavery and Freedom among the Families of Smithfield Plantation").

Admission is free and all are welcome.

To register, visit: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PtaCcRLNQcGZjPlGlPkKAg.

Sponsored by the Virginia Tech History Department's Diversity and Inclusion Committee, with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.

For more information, visit: https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-history/history-events.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTHistory/.