Monday, February 23, 2009

Sometimes I love this school...

Escaped slave's story offers lesson -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY:

"Jared Gourrier walks across the Union College campus wearing a T-shirt that reads, 'Who's Moses Viney?'


If you ask the junior class president and American studies major to answer that question, be prepared for a lengthy and impassioned history lesson, delivered in the soft, honeyed drawl of his native New Orleans.

Gourrier will discuss his research on the life and times of Viney, a runaway slave who found refuge at Union College at a time when the issue of slavery was tearing apart the nation, at Founders Day on Thursday."

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