Contact information
Name:
Diane Windham Shaw
Phone:
610-330-5401
Email:
shawd@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Where:
Gendebien Room, Skillman Library
Presenter:
John Stauffer, Professor of English, American Studies, and African American Studies, Harvard University
Price:
Free and open to the public
A look at Lafayette’s legacy and the abolitionist movement, especially in America, but also in Britain. Black and white abolitionists alike were influenced by Lafayette, finding great inspiration in the ways in which he was remembered.
John Stauffer has written and spoken widely about slavery and abolition. He is the author of The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, co-editor of Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism, and he has appeared in and served as an advisor to the PBS documentaries, The Abolitionists and The African American Experience: Many Rivers to Cross.
Sponsored by:
Friends of Skillman Library