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"Last Seen" with Author and Researcher Judith Giesberg
2026-06-15 18:00:00 2026-06-15 19:00:00 America/New_York "Last Seen" with Author and Researcher Judith Giesberg "Last Seen" is Dr. Judith Giesberg's effort to collect and digitize information from wanted ads placed by formerly enslaved people looking for their loved ones lost in the domestic slave trade. Willard Library - Programming Room

Monday, June 15
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"Last Seen" is Dr. Judith Giesberg's effort to collect and digitize information from wanted ads placed by formerly enslaved people looking for their loved ones lost in the domestic slave trade.

Dr. Judith Giesberg is a professor of history and the Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities at Villanova University. With this book, she draws on this archive of almost 5,000 letters and advertisements to compile individual and family stories in narrative form for the first time.

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