Workshop: “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m.

For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu.

Cultural Studies Colloquium: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass”
Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m.

In her current project, Mary Niall Mitchell tells the story of a girl named Mary Botts, the first light-skinned formerly enslaved child to be
photographed for abolitionist purposes. Beginning with the deposit of the child’s daguerreotype portrait at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in 1921, she unspools the history of Mary’s family and their long efforts to be free from slavery. “The Slave Girl in the Archive” uses
this narrative to explore connections between the lives of enslaved people and the variety of documents and artifacts that contain traces of
them.”

Mary Niall Mitchell, author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (New York University Press, 2010), is
Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, Ethel & Herman Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, and Associate Professor at the
University of New Orleans.

This event is presented by the IHR Working Group on the Study of Children (Research Cluster), with generous support from the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC.

Directions and Parking
Parking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107, 109, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

For more information, including disabled access, please contact Evin Guy at ecguy@ucsc.edu, or (831) 459-5655.

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