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Ordeals and Odysseys: Biographies of Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley

Join acclaimed biographers Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and David Waldstreicher for the opening public event of "Unshackled Lives: American Biographies of Enslavement and Liberation."

5/1/2025
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Kemeny Hall 008 Bradley Lecture Hall
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Arts and Sciences, Conferences, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The opening event of a two day biography conference on "Unshackled Lives" will feature Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, author (among other works) of Mr. and Mrs Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend and Black Britain: A Forgotten Georgian History and David Waldstreicher, author (most recently) of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.  Dartmouth History Professor Robert Bonner and Kaija Celestin '25 will moderate the session, which is open to the public and does not require pre-registration.

For more information, contact:
Robert Bonner and Kaija Celestin
kathetappevernon@gmail.com
6037276964
Permanent URL to this event: https://mals.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=77612

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