The decrepit Russian system based on serfdom showed its weakness in the country’s humiliation in the Crimean War in the mid-1850s. For pro-slavery and abolitionist observers in America, the new reforms of Tsar Alexander II attracted attention as Russia was the first to move to abolition (in the Emancipation of the serfs in 1861).

The talk will be led by Amanda Bellows

Location: Draught 55 (245 East 55th Street, NYC)