Historical Happenings Lecture Series at Mission San Luis
2100 W Tennessee St
Tallahassee, FL 32304
Phone: 850-245-6406
Historical Happenings Lecture Series at Mission San Luis
Saturday, March 6, 2010. It is a great time to start your very own spring vegetable garden! Leon County Master Gardeners Ed Schroeder, John Maiers and Helena Sadvary will discuss the basic components of vegetable gardening. Topics will include organic gardening, sunlight, location, watering, soil needs, mulching, composting, what to plant and when, seedlings, and seeds. Join us and turn your thumb green!
April 3: Morgan McCormick, Scientific Organization or Justification of Colonization? DeBry’s Use of White’s Watercolors.
In 1590, Theodore de Bry published Thomas Harriot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. This version includes thirty engraved illustrations based on John White’s watercolor sketches, chosen to enhance Harriot’s letterpress text. Presenter Morgan McCormick, a PhD student in Art History at FSU, will discuss de Bry’s additions to White’s original images and how these images illustrate the newly discovered peoples as well as the land, flora, fauna, and other natural resources. McCormick asserts that these images would have enticed investors to endow money for the development of colonies in the area and served as a visual justification for colonization.
May 1: Dr. Sam Turner and Derek Hankerson, The Early Slave Trade in the New World and the Participation of Minorities in the Manning of Ships.
An examination of Spanish documents held in the Contaduría section of the Archivo General de Indians in Seville, Spain has shed a good deal of light on the earliest practice of Spanish slaving, both Indian and African, in the New World. These documents also yield information on free black merchants and the employment of Indians and Africans in the manning of ships. Presenters Dr. Sam Turner and Derek Hankerson will discuss various aspects of slaving including the inter-island and the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves as well as those minorities who were free men and operating within the developing New World Spanish Colonial Culture.
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