Author Mark Auslander will sign and discuss his new book, “The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family,” on Oct. 24 at Emory University.

The book details various myths about “Miss Kitty,” an enslaved woman named Catherine Boyd who was owned by Methodist Bishop James Osgood Andrew, the first president of Emory’s board of trustees when the original campus was located in Oxford, Ga.

Auslander will talk about the important role Emory’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library played in his research.

The event will take place at 4 p.m. in the Jones Room on the third floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University, 40 Asbury Circle in Atlanta.

For more information, contact Maureen McGavin at 404-727-6898 or maureen.mcgavin@emory.edu or Beverly Clark at beverly.clark@emory.edu or 404-712-8780.