David walt stryker teaches history at the City University of new york Graduate Center and is the author of slaverys constitution from revolution to ratification and runaway america. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes
David walt stryker teaches history at the City University of new york Graduate Center and is the author of slaverys constitution from revolution to ratification and runaway america. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes
Is the author of slaverys constitution from revolution to ratification and runaway america. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes in the New York Times book review that the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is at once histori
David walt stryker teaches history at the City University of new york Graduate Center and is the author of slaverys constitution from revolution to ratification and runaway america. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes
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