History’s Byrd to read from, sign new book Feb. 23

History’s Byrd to read from, sign new book Feb. 23

Alexander Byrd, associate professor of history, will read from his
recently published book “Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across
the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World” at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23in
Herring Hall, Room 100. A discussion of the book, reception and book
signing will follow the reading.

Byrd, a 1990 graduate of Rice, is an expert in Afro America,
especially black life in the Atlantic world and the Jim Crow South, and
teaches African-American history and the history of the African
diaspora.

The event is sponsored by Multicultural Community Relations/Public Affairs and the Association of Rice University Black Alumni.