# Event Details

- **Event Name**: "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for the annual Belle McWilliams Lecture, co-sponsored with the Department of History. As always, free and open to all!

Full details: https://www.memphis.edu/moch/events/index.php#HISTORY

Frederick Knight // Howard University
Belle McWilliams Lecture Series

            Thursday, November 6, 2025
            5:30pm Reception // 6:00pm Lecture
            Maxine Smith University Center River Room (UC 342)

Dr. Knight will explore the pivotal role that elders played in African American families and communities through Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of printed and archival materials from the period, he will also examine how black and white Southerners used competing ideas about age to forge kinship, community, and freedom over the nineteenth century.

Frederick Knight is an expert on early African American and African Diaspora history. He is the author of Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom (Penn Press, 2024), which argues that elders were central to African American community formation through Reconstruction. The book also demonstrates how whites and blacks mobilized competing ideas about age to exercise power from the era of slavery through the period of emancipation in the United States. His first book Working the Diaspora:  The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 (NYU Press, 2010) traces how Africans, though carried across the Atlantic against their wills, drew upon knowledge from their homelands to shape the agricultural and material worlds of New World slave labor camps. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on black history, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Negro History, the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, The History Transactions of Ghana, Early American Studies, the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The Conversation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/memphis/black-elders-the-meaning-of-age-in-american-slavery-and-freedom/200028853919842
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Memphis
- **state**: TN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: University of Memphis University Center
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- **full address**: University of Memphis University Center, Memphis,TN,United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" being held?
  - **A:** "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" takes place on Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm at University of Memphis University Center, Memphis,TN,United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom"?
  - **A:** "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" is organized by Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Memphis, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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