Tuesday, November 19th

Time:            6:oo-7:45PM

Where:         Columbia Public Library

                        100 West Broadway • Columbia, MO 65203

Attendance:         Open and free to the public

Tickets:                  Free and no reservation required

Link to Event: https:www.comopreservation.org/events/11-19-24

CoMo Preservation is committed to preserving the spaces and places

important to Columbia’s rich history.

Join us to learn about the construction of the original buildings on the University of Missouri campus. We often hear about the landowners who donated money and land to found the University of Missouri, but we don’t often hear about who actually constructed the buildings on campus.

Our guest speaker, Zachary Dowdle, will take us behind the scenes with his research into the role of enslaved people in the construction of the oldest buildings on the campus of the University of Missouri.

SPEAKER

Dr. Zachary Dowdle is the Dean of the College of Social Sciences & Humanities at William Woods University and an Assistant Professor of History. He is a specialist in the history of politics and slavery in Missouri. He earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Missouri in 2019. His dissertation, “Reluctant Emancipator: James Sidney Rollins and the Politics of Slavery and Freedom in the Border South, 1838-1882,” examines the intersection of party politics, slavery, and economic development in nineteenth-century Missouri and the Border South with a focus on the career of Rollins. Rollins was a slave owner but he was also a pro-Unionist who provided a crucial vote in Congress that approved the Thirteenth Amendment.