"Telling the Full History" Speaker Series

This fall, the Shadows-on-the-Teche presents a special speaker series, titled "Telling the Full History," featuring four respected Louisiana historians. Funded by a Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Rebirth Grant, this project is part of the reinterpretation work the Shadows is currently undergoing to offer a more complete history of the site and the people who lived, worked, and were enslaved on the Weeks family plantation. See the schedule below: 

October 16: "Reconstruction in Southern Louisiana" 

By Charles Vincent, Ph.D., Professor of History at Southern University and author of Black Legislators in Louisiana and A Centennial History of Southern University and A&M College, 1880–1980. 

October 23: "Reconstruction and Jim Crow History in Iberia Parish" 

By Phebe Hayes, Ph.D., native and life-long resident of Iberia Parish and descendant of West Africans enslaved on area plantations, including the Shadows, during the antebellum period. 

November 6: "Genealogy of those Enslaved at The Shadows"

By Kenetha Harrington, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at LSU, the 2019 National Trust for Historic Preservation summer intern at the Shadows. 

November 13: "The Need for Reinterpreting Sites of Enslavement" 

By Ian Beamish, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

2 pm–3:15 pm. Free. All lectures will be made available to the public via Facebook livestream and Zoom. Register at shadowsontheteche.org.