Robert W. Fogel, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions at the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1993, will offer reflection on the scholarly controversies concerning nature of slavery and its role in the development of American civilization in a lecture entitled “The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Memoir.”

Date and Time of lecture: 8 p.m., March 11, 2003
Location of Lecture: Memorial Chapel, Sweet Briar Campus, Sweet Briar, Virginia

Offering commentary following the lecture are Michael F. Holt, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia and Joseph T. Miller. T. Cary Johnson Jr. Professor of History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia.

Please join us for this lecture-discussion.