Linda Hirshman with The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation
When:
Monday, Feb 28, 2022 6:00p -
6:00p
Monday, Feb 28, 2022 6:00p -
6:00p
Where:
New England Historic Genealogical Society
99-101 Newbury St
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
History
Event website:
https://www.americanancestors.org/events/linda-hirshman-color-abolition-how-printer-prophet-and-contessa-moved-nation
Presented in partnership with the Boston Public Library, GBH Forum Network, and the Museum of African American History
Moderated by L’Merchie Frazier
In her latest work about social movements, the legal scholar, social historian, and best-selling author Linda Hirshman chronicles abolition – the social spirit, people, and political alliances that changed American history.
The overturning of slavery was an astonishing historical achievement, a crucial landmark in moral progress. Chronicling its origins in the Second Great Awakening, Linda Hirshman shows how the movement was fraught with tensions from within. Yet it moved forward, driven by a powerful activist triumvirate: printer William Lloyd Garrison, who was a core creator of the movement; Frederick Douglass, the charismatic former slave whose eloquence roused the nation; and the lesser-known Maria Weston Chapman, a Boston socialite whose copious and largely unexplored correspondence Hirshman fully examines. Don’t miss learning more about these key players, their New England story, and the political movement that fueled the Republican Party and, ultimately, the Civil War.
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