<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/westmont-news/talk-explores-bournes-picture-slavery.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>10/10/2016</pubDate><title>Talk Explores Bourne’s ‘Picture of Slavery’</title><excerpt>In an upcoming talk in the Erasmus lecture series, Dr. Kya Mangrum of the University of Utah will examine how American abolitionists have used rhetorical and visual strategies to further their cause. Her lecture, “American Slavery as It Is? Word, Image, and the Desire for the Crime Scene Photograph in U.S. Anti-Slavery Literature, 1830-1839,” is free and open to the public. It will be held on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 3:30 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. For more information, please contact organizer Sarah Skripsky, associate professor of English, at (805) 565-6122.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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