Slavery and Black Exclusion in the American West
High Desert Museum 59800 South Hwy 97, Bend, OR, United StatesBefore the Civil War, Western states and territories became a battleground over the westward expansion of slavery and the status of free and enslaved Black people. Professor Stacey Smith, a historian at Oregon State University, will explore the enslavement of Black people in the West and African American resistance to slavery, as well as how […]