Writer Anne C. Bailey to Give Lecture on African Slave Trade Nov. 14
Writer and historian Anne C. Bailey will give a talk entitled “African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Joseph Bryan Jr. Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
Bailey is a professor of history and Africana studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of the non-fiction book African Voices of the Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame, the historical novel Anchors in the Sand and two children’s books, You Can Make A Difference: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. and Return to the Cave of Time (co-authored with Edward Packard). She is currently at work on her next book, The Weeping Time: Anatomy of a Slave Auction.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Guilford College Office of the Academic Dean, the Africana Community Program and the departments of history and African American studies, as well as the Greensboro College Office of the Academic Dean.
Arrangements for the appearance of Anne C. Bailey made through HarperCollins Speakers Bureau, New York, N.Y.
Nov. 14, 2007