CWRTDC'S PREVIOUS MEETING

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with a presentation by

KEVIN LEVIN

about

"When Slavery Came to Gettysburg"

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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6:15 pm ET: Start of Business Meeting/Elections*
6:30 pm ET: Start of Mini-Presentation with Bill Binzel
6:45 pm ET: Start of Speaker Presentation and Q&A
8:00 pm ET: Meeting Adjourned

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About the Topic:

In late June 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia entered the free state of Pennsylvania with over 10,000 enslaved laborers. These men assumed roles as teamsters, as hospital attendants, and as body servants. Their presence served as the “cornerstone” of the army during its long march north and through the three days of fighting in Gettysburg. 

This presentation will look at the most famous military campaign of the Civil War through the eyes of men that have rarely made it into the history books, but whose presence underscores the importance that Confederates attached to slavery on the home front and in the army as well.

About the Speaker:

Kevin Levin, based in Boston, is an award-winning educator, author, and historian with expertise in high school and college classroom instruction, historic site tours, collaborations with museums, and history teacher training. He is the creator of the substack newsletter Civil War Memory  (https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/; see also https://cwmemory.com).  


Levin’s research is focused primarily on the Civil War era and how Americans have fought over and commemorated this period in American history. He is the author and editor of three books, including Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (2019), which offers a thorough debunking of that myth and explored how enslaved labor was utilized by the Confederacy; Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder (2022), which explores the history and controversy over the massacre of United States Colored Troops at the Battle of the Crater in 1864, and his upcoming book, A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Robert Gould Shaw (UNC Press). Mr. Levin also published numerous essays in scholarly journals and edited collections as well as op-eds for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, and Smithsonian. His upcoming book describes the experiences of enslaved laborers in the Confederate army during the Gettysburg Campaign. 


Mr. Levin will appear virtually for his talk, “When Slavery Came to Gettysburg.”