#  Gregory Downs, 'Emancipation, Empire, and Expansion: Cuba's Crises and U.S. Anti-Slavery, 1848-1878' 

 



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 **November 19, 2020** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **Du Bois Virtual Lecture**  



 

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 Gregory P. Downs**, Professor of History at University of California, Davis

 *Emancipation, Empire, and Expansion: Cuba's Crises and U.S. Anti-Slavery, 1848-1878*

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 Gregory P. Downs is Professor of History at University of California, Davis, and the author of three books of history: *The Second American Revolution: The Civil War Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic* (UNC, 2019); *After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War* (Harvard, 2015); and *Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South* (UNC, 2011). With Northwestern's Kate Masur, he is co-editor of *The World the Civil War Made* (UNC, 2015), co-author of the National Park Service's first-ever NHL Theme Study on Reconstruction, and a leader of historians' efforts to lobby for the creation of the first-ever National Park Service site devoted to Reconstruction, created in January 2017 by President Barack Obama. With Georgia's Scott Nesbit, he created *Mapping Occupation*, a lauded digital history site on Reconstruction. He is also the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning book of short stories *Spit Baths* (Georgia, 2006). He is currently completing the late Anthony Kaye's manuscript on Nat Turner and early American prophecy.



 

 



 

 

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