Old Court House to host Professor Stocksdale

Sally Stocksdale, a history instructor at Towson University in Maryland, is set to discuss her recently published book, “When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate,” at the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The lecture is scheduled for Monday, February 26th at noon, will take place in the courtroom of the museum located at 1008 Cherry Street.

Stocksdale has been teaching history and political science at the college level for 30 years, with a specialization in the history of Simbirsk Province in Russia.

Her book compares the emancipation of Russian serfs on the Yazykovo Selo estate with the American slaves at the Palmyra Plantation. Both countries shared human rights issues and were linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period. Despite political and economic differences, as well as geographic and cultural distances, the book re-conceptualizes emancipation and its aftermath in each country from a history that treats each as a separate, self-contained story to one with a unified, global framework.

The lecture promises to be an insightful event for history enthusiasts and those interested in human rights issues.