GLC Panel: Frederick Douglass at 200: The Life Behind the Times Friday, February 16, 2018 • 4:30pm Linsly-Chittenden Hall 102, 63 High Street, Yale University


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Friday, February 16, 2018 • 4:30pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 102, 63 High Street, Yale University



Frederick Douglass is one of the greatest nineteenth century American thinkers, writers, and orators. Join this discussion of that literary and political legacy through the story of Douglass’s sometimes turbulent personal life.

Frederick Douglass is one of the greatest nineteenth century American thinkers, writers, and orators. Join this discussion of that literary and political legacy through the story of Douglass’s sometimes turbulent personal life. The panel will include a reading by M. Nzadi Keita of a selection of poems imagining the life of Anna Murray Douglass.

Moderator: 
Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University
Panelists:
David W. Blight, Yale University
Sarah Meer, Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
Leigh Fought, Associate Professor of History at Lemoyne College
M. Nzadi Keita, Associate Professor of English, Ursinus College
Hannah Rose Murray, University of Nottingham, UK
 

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