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Epic Lives: New Biographies of Nineteenth-Century American Freedom-Seekers

Join Ilyon Woo, the 2024 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, at the closing public event for "Unshackled Lives: American Biographies of Enslavement and Liberation."

5/2/2025
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Kemeny Hall 008
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts and Sciences, Conferences, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Lectures & Seminars

The closing event of a two day conference will feature a conversation between Ilyon Woo, author of the Pulitzer -Prize winning Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom and R.J.M. Blackett, author of Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle and editor of William and Ellen Craft, Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. 

Moderating the discussion will be Scott Casper, President of the American Antiquarian Society and author of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine and Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America.

 
For more information, contact:
Robert Bonner and Kaija Celestin
kathetappevernon@gmail.com
Permanent URL to this event: https://history.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=77717

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