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."
Location
Kemeny Hall 008
Sponsored by
History Department
Audience
Public
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.
Location
Kemeny Hall 008
Sponsored by
History Department
Audience
Public
