Monday Lecture Series – William Seward and the Freeman Trial.
May 23, 2022 @ 1:00 pm
Allison Hinman
Join us May 23 for our next-to-last presentation in the Monday Lecture Series for the 2021-22 season.
Allison Hinman, director of operations for the Anthony Museum, will speak on “William Seward and the Freeman Trial.” You might remember William Seward as Lincoln’s Secretary of State, but in the 1840s he was the first to use the insanity defense in the case of William Freeman, a Black man accused of murder.
Hinman reveals Seward’s beliefs about the treatment of the mentally ill and racial minorities, and his ground-breaking strategy to use civil reform movements as a defense strategy.
