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James Gigantino II, Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, will speak about Slavery, Race, and the Long Road to Freedom in Jeffersonian New Jersey. He is a native of Cranford, New Jersey, and earned his PhD in History at the University of Georgia in 2010. James is the author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), which was recently awarded book prizes by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance and the New Jersey Historical Commission. For more information, see: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15280.html.
Now in its 32nd year, the Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson Lecture Series at William Paterson University is devoted to exploring the thought, accomplishments and influence of the third president. A Paterson businessman, Mr. Abram Kartch endowed this program with an eye toward stimulating interest and appreciation of American History in the minds and hearts of youth.
Designed as an outreach program for local high schools, the History Department encourages all interested members of the WPU community to attend. The lecture is also open to the public.
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