Sponsored by the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History

This year’s Juneteenth Freedom Program: They Were Her Property explores Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers book “They were her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South”. It will also feature poet David Mills, who will reading be poems about slavery in New York City and Massachusetts.

“Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery.” Jones-Rogers argues that white women who owned slaves were “sophisticated economic actors” who benefited from the slave market in the South economically and socially. Ultimately, Jones-Rogers book causes the reader to question & revaluate the economics and social conventions of slaveholding in America.

This virtual event is free and open to the public. REGISTER HERE