The Worm in the Apple: Slavery and Race in Early New England

The 2012 summer lecture series “Digging for Truth: Uncovering Early African American Presence and Experience in the North,” is jointly sponsored by Historic Deerfield and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA). All presentations are free and open to the public.

Joanne Pope Melish, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky, will give the first of the three lectures on July 12 titled “The Worm in the Apple: Slavery and Race in Early New England.”  She is the author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1789-1860.