– In observance of the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment – which abolished slavery in the United States, Delaware State University will host the documentary film The Abolitionists on Oct 20 and a guest lecture by Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar on Oct. 21, both at 6 p.m. in the Education and Humanities Theatre.
Both events are free and open to the public.
In the Oct. 20 screening, the film The Abolitionists vividly brings to life the struggles of the men and women who led the battle to end slavery. Through innovative use of reenactments, this three-episode series puts a face on the anti-slavery movement—or rather, five faces: impassioned New England newspaper editor William Lloyd Garrison; former slave, author, and activist Frederick Douglass; Angelina Grimké, daughter of a rich South Carolina slaveholder; Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the enormously influential Uncle Tom’s Cabin; and John Brown, ultimately executed for his armed seizure of the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry.
The following evening Dr. Dunbar, an associate professor at the University of Delaware, will speak on the subject “From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Social Movements and the Black Freedom Struggle.” She appears as a feature historian in The Abolitionists and has appeared in the film documentary “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment.” In 2011, Dr. Dunbar was appointed the first director of the African American History Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
She is the author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (2008) and is currently working on a second book to be entitled Never Caught: Ona Judge Staines, The President’s Runaway Slave Woman.
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Friday, October 16th 2015 at 10:41AM
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