VA 250 Program Series – Freedom and Liberty in the American Civil War

February 19
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

The Center at Belvedere – Learning Center A, Room 206

540 Belvedere Boulevard
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901

  • Contact: Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
  • Phone: (434) 296-1492
Website

On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln consecrated the Union graves at Gettysburg in the name of a “new birth of freedom.” Even as enslaved people and white Unionists waged a war in the name of freedom, so too did Confederates claim that theirs was a war for liberty. UVA History professor Caroline Janney will explore how the legacy of the American Revolution permeated the Civil War at the national, state, and local levels.

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