Richmond post-Civil War is subject of Banner Lecture Oct.12
10/7/2016, 9:59 p.m.
A lecture exploring how Richmond residents, including newly emancipated African-Americans, coped in the aftermath of the Civil War will be held next week.
Michael D. Gorman, a historian at Richmond National Battlefield Park, will speak on “A Manner Which Would Not Have Been Permitted Towards Slaves: Race, Reconstruction and Memory in Postwar Richmond,” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N. Boulevard.
The lecture, co-sponsored by Richmond National Battlefield Park, is part of the historical society’s Banner Lecture series and is free and open to the public.
Mr. Gorman will use previously unexamined sources to shed light on Reconstruction in Richmond, which was replete with racial violence and white resistance, according to lecture organizers.
Details: www.vahistorical.org or www.nps.gov/rich or (804) 358-4901.
