George Washington University Professor Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr., discusses his latest book, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South.

More than 250,000 people of color lived in the the American South before the American Civil War. These people were both privileged and victimized, both celebrated and despised, in a region characterized by social inconsistency. Prof. Milteer analyzes the way wealth, gender, and occupation intersected with ideas promoting white supremacy and discrimination to reveal a wide range of social interactions and life outcomes for the South's free people of color and helps to explain societal contradictions that continue to appear in the modern United States.

Free. Book signing and sales will follow the talk. Info: email, 703-385-8414.