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NEW DATE! Original Sin: Slavery, Abolition, and America's Moral Awakening
On April 21, the U.S. Capitol Historical Society continues our series on the Constitution with a study of the 13th Amendment: the battle for its passage, its impact, and legacy today. Our featured guest to lead this, still important conversation, is award-winning Professor of History & Law at Duke University, Dr. Thavolia Glymph, an elected Executive Board Member of the Society of American Historians.

During our event, we will explore the economic impact of slavery, both as a Southern institution, but also a driver of Northern manufacturing; and discuss Lincoln's views on the constitutionality of slavery, the legal basis for the Emancipation Proclamation, and why the 13th Amendment was still necessary. Finally, we will detail the immeasurable impact of the 13th Amendment on African Americans and our society, but also why we still grapple with the history of slavery in a nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Our 2023 theme is “Crises & Heroes: How Our Nation Has Long Endured.” We'll highlight the role that the 13th Amendment played in saving such a nation.

Dr. Glymph is Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Duke. Her recent book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, won several awards, including the 2021 Beveridge Award as the best English-language book on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present from the American Historical Association; The Mary Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians; and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award from the Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation. Her first book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household won the 2009 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. Dr. Glymph is a past President of the Southern Historical Association, an elected member of the Society of American Historians...

Apr 21, 2023 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Dr. Thavolia Glymph
Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law @Duke University
Dr. Glymph's recent book, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, won several awards, including the 2021 Beveridge Award as the best English-language book on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present from the American Historical Association; The Mary Nickliss Prize from the for the Organization of American Historians; and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award from the Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation. Her first book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household won the 2009 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. Dr. Glymph is a past President of the Southern Historical Association and an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Board of Directors of the Gettysburg Foundation, and President-elect of the American Historical Association.

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