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<\/a><\/p>\nOn May 20-21, 2016, the University of Memphis hosted \u201cMemories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866, a Symposium Exploring Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction.\u201d\u00a0<\/a> The culmination of a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, discussions, and book talks, this symposium featured historians and scholars from across the country, including Robert K. Sutton, retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service.\u00a0 Together, their presentations and the ensuing discussions pried open what has for 150-years been the carefully concealed history of Reconstruction, its legacies, and the significant role that Memphis played in both. We are thankful for all who joined us live or followed us on social media as we reflected collectively on a wave of terror that rocked a city and changed a nation.<\/p>\n If you did not get a chance to attend or missed some of the panels on Friday, you can hear them below. Please feel free to share this with others.<\/p>\n FRIDAY, MAY 20<\/strong><\/p>\n Welcome:\u00a0Welcome by Karen Weddle-West, Provost, University of Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Joshua D. Rothman, University of Alabama<\/a>,The Cotton Economy and the Rebirth of American Slavery\u201d Twitter Handle<\/strong>:\u00a0@rothmanistan<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 J. Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State, <\/a>\u00a0Cash for Slaves\u2019: The African American Trail of Tears\u201d\u00a0Twitter Handle<\/strong>:\u00a0@CalScherm<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Max Grivno, University of Southern Mississippi<\/a>, \u201cDeath on the River: Slavery in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta\u201d<\/p>\n Moderator: Madeleine C. Taylor, Executive Director, NAACP Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University<\/a>, \u201cBlack Soldiers and Sailors: Rebuilding Families and the Nation amidst the Chaos of Civil War in the Mississippi Valley\u201d (Paper presented by Co-Director: Beverly Bond<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u2022 Jim Downs, Connecticut College,<\/a> \u201cDying to be Free: The Deadly Consequences of Emancipation\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @jimdowns1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College<\/a>, \u201cFrom Emancipation to Abolition in Civil-War Tennessee\u201d<\/p>\n Moderator: Femi I. Ajanaku, Director, Center for African & African American Studies,<\/a>LeMoyne-Owen College Twitter Handle:<\/strong>\u00a0@izegbe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Susan Eva O\u2019Donovan, University of Memphis<\/a>, \u201cThe Problem of Freedom in the Era of Emancipation\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @odonovanse1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Kate Masur, Northwestern University<\/a>, \u201cUrban Battlegrounds: Reconstruction in Southern Cities\u201d Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @katemasur<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022Elizabeth L. Jemison<\/a>, Clemson University,\u00a0\u201cChristianity, Race, and Politics after Emancipation.\u201d\u00a0Twitter Handle:<\/strong> @eljemison<\/a><\/p>\n Moderator: Ladrica Menson-Furr, Director of African & African American Studies<\/a>, University of Memphis<\/p>\n Opening remarks by Ronald A. Walter, President and General Manager, WREG-TV, Memphis<\/a><\/p>\n Moderator: Aram Goudsouzian, Chair, Department of History, University of Memphis<\/a><\/p>\nPanel One: Slavery and Slave Life in the Mississippi Valley (Listen\u00a0Here<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Panel Two: Civil War and Emancipation in the Mississippi Valley (Listen Here<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Panel Three: Giving Meaning to Freedom (Listen Here<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Keynote Address (Listen Here<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n