Event
Douglass Bicentennial Book Discussion with Authors from the University of Edinburgh
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Fee:
Free.Location:
Frederick Douglass NHS Visitor Center AuditoriumDates & Times
Date:
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Time:
7:00 PM
Duration:
2 hours
Description
The National Park Service is still in the midst of its yearlong bicentennial birthday commemoration of Frederick Douglass. Many books, articles, and journals have been written on Douglass—the leading African American abolitionist, orator, and statesman of the nineteenth century. Historians and authors Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor have penned one of the newest books on Douglass entitled, “If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection” published by Edinburgh University Press.
The book is a collection of 60 previously unpublished speeches, letters and autobiographies, in addition to over 20 photographs and prints (many unseen) of Frederick Douglass and his sons from the Walter O. Evans Collection. This is the first extensive study of the great abolitionist and his family's fight for the cause of liberty during the Civil War and in the Post-Emancipation era, as well as the first scholarly annotated transcriptions of these previously unpublished materials.
We hope you can join us for this Book Discussion featuring authors Bernier and Taylor!
Copies of the book will also be availble for purchase in the site bookstore.
The book is a collection of 60 previously unpublished speeches, letters and autobiographies, in addition to over 20 photographs and prints (many unseen) of Frederick Douglass and his sons from the Walter O. Evans Collection. This is the first extensive study of the great abolitionist and his family's fight for the cause of liberty during the Civil War and in the Post-Emancipation era, as well as the first scholarly annotated transcriptions of these previously unpublished materials.
We hope you can join us for this Book Discussion featuring authors Bernier and Taylor!
Copies of the book will also be availble for purchase in the site bookstore.