IN-PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
6:30 p.m.
Presented by Dr. Kelly Houston Jones
Free
Please join us for a program with Dr. Kelly Houston Jones of Arkansas Tech University who will discuss her book, A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas.
A Weary Land is the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years. It offers a glimpse on enslaved life in Arkansas in relation to land use and agriculture. “As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom,” notes the book’s publisher, The University of Georgia Press.
Jones, through her book, analyzes how these enslaved men and women, through their labor, transformed Arkansas’ landscape while making the most of their surroundings despite their harsh treatment from a “second slavery” that followed. Jones notes that these enslaved Arkansans were able to use their experiences to create a sense of freedom that enabled them to own land and gain power to control their own movement.
Jones is an associate professor of history at Arkansas Tech University. Her work has appeared in edited volumes such as The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times, and Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas from Slavery through the 1930s.
This in-person event is also available for viewing live online. Please note this free online event is limited to 100 participants. Registration is required. After you register, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link to join the event.
REGISTER TO VIEW VIRTUALLY
IN-PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
6:30 p.m.
Presented by Dr. Kelly Houston Jones
Free
Please join us for a program with Dr. Kelly Houston Jones of Arkansas Tech University who will discuss her book, A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas.
A Weary Land is the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years. It offers a glimpse on enslaved life in Arkansas in relation to land use and agriculture. “As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom,” notes the book’s publisher, The University of Georgia Press.
Jones, through her book, analyzes how these enslaved men and women, through their labor, transformed Arkansas’ landscape while making the most of their surroundings despite their harsh treatment from a “second slavery” that followed. Jones notes that these enslaved Arkansans were able to use their experiences to create a sense of freedom that enabled them to own land and gain power to control their own movement.
Jones is an associate professor of history at Arkansas Tech University. Her work has appeared in edited volumes such as The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times, and Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas from Slavery through the 1930s
This in-person event is also available for viewing live online. Please note this free online event is limited to 100 participants. Registration is required. After you register, you will receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link to join the event.
REGISTER TO VIEW VIRTUALLY