On February 17, Kari Winter (Professor, Global Gender & Sexuality Studies) will be featured along with Rhonda Brace (descendant of Jeffrey Brace) as part of the Museum of the American Revolution’s Read the Revolution Speaker Series. This conversation is a continuation of the work showcased in the 2017 Humanities Institute Annual Conference, “Reclaiming Our Ancestors: Community Conversations About Racial Justice and Public History.”

From the Museum’s press release about the event:

Historian and author Dr. Kari J. Winter will discuss the rare and powerful memoir of Jeffrey Brace, an enslaved man who won his freedom through service during the Revolutionary War, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at the Museum of the American Revolution. The 1810 memoir, which Winter republished in 2005, recounts Brace’s harrowing journey from enslavement to free farmer to abolitionist. Following the talk, Winter will be joined by family historian Rhonda Brace, a descendant of Jeffrey Brace, for a question-and-answer session with the onsite and online audiences.

The Museum of the American Revolution located in Philadelphia presents their Read the Revolution Speaker Series as a hybrid event (in-person and on Zoom). For additional details and to join via Zoom, visit:

https://www.amrevmuseum.org/events/read-the-revolution-speaker-series-with-kari-winter-featuring-rhonda-brace

About Kari Winter

Professor of American Studies in the Department of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo, Kari J. Winter is a historian, literary critic and screen writer who has served as the Director of the UB Gender Institute (2011-17) and Executive Director of the UB Humanities Institute (2017-18). She completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Minnesota and BA in English and History at Indiana University. Her books include The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader (2011), The Blind African Slave: or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace (scholarly edition of long-lost 1810 slave narrative, 2005), and Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790- 1865 (1992, 1995, 2010). Winter also has published dozens of scholarly articles, book chapters, and reviews and has presented keynote addresses, conference papers, and guest lectures at more than eighty venues on four continents.