The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, The Coexistence Center, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition, Yale University co-sponsor the forum on "American Slavery's Mixed-Race Legacy: Histories of Reconciliation."

Dr. Alexandra W. Logue, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College, makes the opening remarks. The forum is convened by Catherine Clinton, visiting professor at Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the founding director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, makes the welcoming remarks. The forum features Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School, Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family and Henry Wiencek, author of The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White . Baruch graduate student E. Arthur Westerinen, Jefferson-Hemings descendant, and author of the ticker article Descendant of Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson Responds to "My Two Cents" Article , December 9, 1998, speaks at the end. A Q & A session follows.

The event takes place on December 3, 1999, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, Room 750.