Revolution and Registration: Pennsylvania German Enslavers
Schedule
Tue, 18 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
St. Luke's, 200 W. Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426. | Collegeville, PA
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Revolution and Registration: Pennsylvania German EnslaversLecture by James M. Beidler
Tuesday, February 18, 7 to 8 pm
Join us for the kickoff to our spring lecture series with a special talk in conjunction with Black History Month focusing on the difficult topic of Pennsylvania German enslavers. Scholarly comments on the Pennsylvania Germans and slavery have ranged anywhere from assertions that “Germans generally held no slaves” to claims that “more Germans in Colonial Philadelphia were enslavers than other groups.” Explore the reality with speaker James M. Beidler, a Pennsylvania German researcher and genealogist, who will use his own family history as a case study. Beidler will also delve into Pennsylvania's Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 and its legacy.
Held at St. Luke's, 200 W. Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426.
FREE, including light refreshments
The spring lecture series is sponsored by the Concordia Trust.
Photo credit: Record Group 26, Records of the Department of State
Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation
Engrossed Laws (series #26.57)
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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Where is it happening?
St. Luke's, 200 W. Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426., 200 W Main St, Trappe, PA 19426-2007, United States,Trappe, Pennsylvania, CollegevilleEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
