A Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia

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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education

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Janice L. Sumler-Edmond talks with 90.1 WABE's Valerie Jackson about The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia. This is a live taping of WABE's Between the Lines program. Sumler-Edmond has served as a professor of United States history, African American history and constitutional history and law since her appointment to the Huston-Tillotson University faculty in 2002. She is also the director of the W. E. B. DuBois Honors Program. Previously, she taught history at Clark Atlanta University and served as the chair of the history department and as an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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