Chris Haley Will Lead Panel Discussion on “Sticks and Stones: (De)humanizing Words? Language of Slavery, Race, and Marginalized Communities”
The Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area is pleased to present a panel discussion, led by author and scholar Chris Haley of the Maryland State Archives, entitled "Sticks and Stones: (De)humanizing Words? Considering the Language of Slavery, Race, and Marginalized Communities," to be held on March 28, 2-4 p.m. The program will look closely at the ways that language used by public history professionals and academic historians, and today's communities, to describe current, past, past people, and atrocities, has changed. A panel of speakers will discuss, from both professional and personal perspectives, the...
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