January Lecture: Richard Bell, The Reverse Underground Railroad: Slavery and Kidnapping in Pre-Civil War America

Richard Bell, The Reverse Underground Railroad: Slavery and Kidnapping in Pre-Civil War America
January 30
10:00-11:00 AM
Online via Zoom

Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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