Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 12, 2002

Volume 30, Number 25

Difficult quest for black education explored in forum

The troubled history of African Americans' struggle for education and full citizenship in 19th-century Connecticut will be the subject of a forum to be held 4-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, at Yale's Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Titled "Black Acts and Blue Laws: Yale, Slavery and Black Education, 1831-1841," the forum will explore such topics as abolitionists' failed effort to create a college for African-American youth in 1831, the suppression of Prudence Crandall's school for black girls in 1833 and the Amistad incident of 1839-1841. It is sponsored by Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

The forum will feature two leading scholars of African-American life in the early republic: Professor Julie Winch, of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, author of "A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten," about the wealthy black sailmaker who was an organizer of the Colored Manual Training School and a board member of Prudence Crandall's school; and Hilary Moss, a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University, who is working on a study of the thwarted Colored Manual Training School. The forum will be moderated by Robert P. Forbes, associate director of the Gilder Lehrman Center.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Gilder Lehrman Center by calling (203) 432-3339 or sending e-mail to gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.

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