William and Mary Symposium on Race and Law in America

If you're in Williamsburg on Saturday I hope you'll take in the symposium on race and law in America at William and Mary's law school.  The speakers are Roy Brooks, Sheryll Cashin, Chris Bracey, Alex Johnson, Roger Clegg, and me.  I'm going to be on the first panel, talking about William and Mary's connections to slavery -- mostly about the ideas of Thomas R. Dew, who wrote an important defense of slavery in the wake of the Virginia legislature's spring 1832 debate on slavery.  (That debate was inspired by the Nat Turner rebellion.)  George Wythe, Beverley Tucker, Abel Upshur, and a couple of more obscure people are part of the story, too.  The Black Law Students Association has done a terrific job putting this together and I'm looking forward to the discussion!  (Previous coverage of W&M's Lemon Project, which is about their connections to slavery, is here, here, and here.)