The Role of Religious Institutions in Establishing Schools for Freed Slaves

Saturday, January 4, 2014: 12:10 PM
Columbia Hall 3 (Washington Hilton)
James M. McPherson, Princeton University
He will reflect on the role of religious institutions (like the American Missionary Society) in establishing schools for freed slaves as well as on how the treatment of such subjects may be altering general conceptions of the conflict.