The fifth-largest slave owner in Virginia by the late 1780s, George Washington constantly struggled with the tangled web of slavery despite his personal desires to eliminate it from his life. In this lecture illuminating the lived experience of slavery, Philip Morgan will share the ways in which master and slaves, whites and blacks, interacted at Washington's Mount Vernon plantation with special focus on the workplace, families and resistance. Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and one of the leading specialists on the history of the Atlantic world.

The lecture begins at 6 p.m. following a 5 p.m. reception with the speaker. Advance registration is requested due to limited seating. Walk-in registration is based on seating availibility.

This program is presented in celebration of African-American History Month by Homewood Museum, a former country house and slave-holding farm of Maryland's Carroll family in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The lecture will be streamed live on Ustream.

GPS address: 3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21211. Parking is available in the garage beneath Mason Hall.