KC Oasis Sunday Gathering — "On Slavery's Border," Diane Mutti Burke
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Musical guest: Swoovi (https://www.facebook.com/EverythingSwoovi)
Community moment: Kevin Lamberd
Featured speaker: Diane Mutti Burke, "On Slavery's Border"
Diane Mutti Burke is Professor of History Department and Director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Educated at Dartmouth College and Emory University, she is a specialist on the Civil War Era South and Midwest. Her award-winning first book, On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865, is a bottom-up examination of slavery in Missouri. She also co-edited two collections of scholarship on the Missouri/Kansas border region, Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border, and Wide-Open Town: Kansas City during the Pendergast Era. Mutti Burke is dedicated to bringing the history of Missouri to public audiences and was awarded the 2015 Missouri Humanities Council Literary Achievement Award in recognition of her contribution to enriching the understanding of Missouri’s history and culture.
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