Free Teacher Workshop – “Slavery in Missouri”

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is offering a free teacher workshop on Friday, September 29. Below is a description of the workshop and attached is a flyer. Please feel free to share this information with others. Thank you!

Teacher Workshop – “Slavery in Missouri”
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
Friday, September 29, 2017
8:30 am – 3:00 pm
FREE

This workshop focuses on slavery in the border state of Missouri, a topic that is often not addressed in textbooks or resources available to educators. The small-scale slavery found in Missouri differed in many ways from slavery in the Deep South.  Diane Mutti Burke, Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will provide insight into the economic and social dynamics of slavery, its influence by geography, and the disintegration of slavery during the Civil War. Park staff will address slavery as it existed at White Haven, the plantation where Ulysses S. Grant lived for almost six years with his wife and in-laws.

Reservations are required. Please call 314-842-1867 ext. 223.

Diane Mutti Burke’s award-winning first book On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both Missouri’s geography and the small scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Workshop participants will receive a copy of this book.

Julie Northrip

Chief of Interpretation
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
7400 Grant Road
St. Louis, MO 63123
314-842-1867 ext. 223