Constitution Day Program - September 17, 2008
Amendment XIII Abolition of slavery Section 1 Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2 Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Book Signing and Lecture
Guest Speaker Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard School of Law
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/cogletree
Book Signing
UConn Co-op
3:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Lecture
Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
4:00 to 5:00 p.m. |
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Panel Discussion
The Amistad Freedom Voyage
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
The panelists will be: Captain William Pinkney, Master of the Amistad; Mr. Clifton Graves, Director of Education, Amistad America; Mary Sarah Bilder, Professor at Boston College, and Erica Whyte, UConn student who served onboard as one of the crew. The panel will be moderated by Jeffrey Ogbar, Associate Professor and Director of the African American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut.
www.amistadamerica.org |
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Amistad, Movie
Student Union Theatre
2:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 14
& 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Free Admission
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Link to movie clips
Student on board the Amistad. |
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Trailer to the movie. |
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Captain Bill Pinkney. |
Sponsored by the Provost and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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