OAH Distinguished Lecturer Profile
Kenneth S. Greenberg is Distinguished Professor of History at Suffolk University. He is the author of a number of books about enslavement in America including Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South (1996); Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory (2003); The Confessions of Nat Turner, Second Edition (2016); and Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery (1985). He is also a coproducer and a cowriter of the film, "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property," co-written with academy winner Charles Burnett and academy award nominated Frank Christopher; nationally screened on pbs.
Lecture on the history and meaning of the duel in the Old South. This will include connections to the larger meaning of "honor" and the coming of the Civil War.
