0470 - California Confederates?: Unexpected Westerners on the Pacific

Course Description

California has been a divided state within a fractured nation since its statehood in 1850. Pro-slavery southern migrants exercised a disproportionate influence on politics there from its early years, and this continued. This lecture discusses key flashpoints where pro-southern, anti-Black ideas came to the fore, from the politics of the 1850s to Civil War-era Confederate militias. It ends in the early twentieth century with the surprising phenomenon of California’s Confederate memorials.

Instructor

Dana Elizabeth Weiner is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Officer in the history department at WLU. She teaches there about the early U.S., race, slavery, gender, western history, and the Civil War era Her publications include a book about antislavery and anti-Black Law activism, Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870, as well as book chapters about race, property, identity, and citizenship claims among free people of African descent in early California. Her next book, William Alexander Leidesdorff: Contesting a Life and Afterlife is under contract with University of Nebraska Press.

Location

Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex, Community Pavilion (101 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo, ON)

Parking is free.
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Notes

Lecture Time : 130-300 pm
Lecture Cost: $14.00 + HST

Participants must register for the class before the start date of the course. There will be no opportunity for purchase the day the class begins.
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You will only be able to purchase 1 seat at the time of registration. If looking to register more than 1 person, each registrant will require their own account to complete the registration.
Lectures are non-refundable

Contact

Please email lall@wlu.ca with any questions