Leslie Harris

Leslie Harris is associate professor of history and African American studies at Emory University. She is author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (2003) and coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New York (2005). She is currently at work on a family history of New Orleans between 1965 (Hurricane Betsy) and 2005 (Hurricane Katrina). She is also cofounder and director of the Transforming Community Project of Emory University, which seeks to engage all members of the university community in the active recovery of and reflection on the history of race at Emory and its meaning for the institution today.

Lecture topics:

• African Americans, Class, and Community in Pre-Civil War New York City
• Slavery in New York City
• On the Eve of Katrina: Life in Late-Twentieth-Century New Orleans
• Transforming Community at Emory University: An Institution Confronts its Racial History

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