10/15/2009 7:00 pm
Huston-Tillotson University history professor and author, Janice Sumler-Edmond, will appear at Austin's BookWoman to sign her book: The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier-Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia. Sumler-Edmond will lead a discussion of her book, including tips on researching history. Sumler-Edmond will also read excerpts from The Secret Trust, providing a glimpse into the unique life of a black female entrepreneur in the antebellum South. "...an interesting account of a remarkable woman of color .... offers readers a well-structured and thoroughly argued presentation of a part of history still overlooked and long forgotten."—H-Net, June 2009 "....Scholars will find this chip in the monolithic view of antebellum Southern life worthy of attention."—Publishers Weekly, November 2008 Janice L. Sumler-Edmond is professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities and Fine Arts and director of the W.E.B. Dubois Honors Program at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. She is coeditor of two previous books: Freedom’s Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon and Black Women’s History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power: ABWH’s Twentieth Anniversary Anthology Location:
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