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| November 21, 2013 |
Time:
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: RBD Library, Special Collections
Dr. Carol Ann Băchl Dennis, “Whispers of Freedom: Exploring Laura Beecher Comer’s Diary Through the Prism of the Comer Slaves’ Resistance.” Co-sponsored by AU Libraries, Africana Studies and
Auburn Connects! Common Book Program.
In 1862, Laura Beecher Comer, cousin of Harriet Beecher Stowe, emphatically described in her diary those she enslaved as “certainly, not more than half civilized.” Departing from past practice
of mining Comer’s diary for insight into the attitudes of the plantation elite, Dr. Dennis considers how Comer’s diary testifies to resistance, disruption, and sabotage in anticipation of freedom and the coming of a great day of jubilee.
Dr. Dennis, an Assistant Professor of History at Alabama State University, received her Ph.D. from Auburn University in 2012 where she also taught in the Africana Studies Program.
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