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SUMMARY:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved Black woman. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nKoritha Mitchell’s edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is no ordinary edition. Besides faithfully reproducing Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 narrative\, it adds extensive explanatory footnotes and a thorough introduction. The volume also offers six appendices with historical and cultural documents that help readers appreciate the immensity of Jacobs’ achievement. Mitchell will share what she learned from editing this extraordinary text\, the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman. \nAbout the Book\nIn 1861\, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming-of-age story\, she insisted upon biographical accuracy and bold creativity—telling the truth while giving herself and others fictionalized names. She also adapted conventions from two other popular genres: the sentimental novel and the slave narrative. Then\, despite facing obstacles not encountered by White women and Black men\, she orchestrated the book’s publication and became a traveling bookseller in an effort to inspire passive Americans to support the abolition of slavery. \nEngaging with the latest research on Jacobs’ life and work\, this edition helps readers to understand the magnitude of her achievement in writing\, publishing\, and distributing her life story. However\, it also shows how this monumental accomplishment was only the beginning of her contributions\, given her advocacy work over the nearly forty years that she lived after its publication. As a survivor of sexual abuse who became an advocate\, Jacobs laid a foundation for activist movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. The six appendices featured in this edition\, place at readers’ fingertips resources that further illuminate the issues raised by Jacobs’ remarkable life and legacy. \nAbout the Editor\nKoritha Mitchell (she/her + Koritha rhymes with Aretha) is an award-winning author\, literary historian\, cultural critic\, and professional development expert. Her research focuses on African America literature as well as violence in United States history and contemporary culture. She examines how texts\, both written and performed\, help targeted families and communities survive and thrive. \nHer first book\, Living with Lynching\, won awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Her second monograph\, From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture\, appeared in August 2020 and was named a Best Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine and Black Perspectives. Professor Mitchell edited Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)\, the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved African American woman\, and Frances E.W. Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy. Her scholarly articles include “James Baldwin\, Performance Theorist\, Sings the Blues for Mister Charlie\,” published by American Quarterly\, and “Love in Action\,” which appeared in Callaloo and identifies similarities between lynching and violence against LGBTQ communities. \nCurrently a professor of English at Ohio State University\, Koritha grew up in Sugar Land\, Texas (near Houston); earned her BA from Ohio Wesleyan University; and earned her MA and PhD at the University of Maryland-College Park. \nIn 2011\, Koritha founded the Columbus\, Ohio\, chapter of Black Girls RUN!\, a national organization encouraging women to make fitness and healthy living a priority. She stepped down from leadership in 2014 and remains proud that the chapter is still going strong. On Twitter\, she’s @ProfKori. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
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SUMMARY:Remaking the Republic
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Black politics and the creation of American citizenship. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nCitizenship in nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning\, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the fundamental questions of who could be a citizen\, how a person attained the status\, and the particular privileges citizenship afforded. Indeed\, as late as 1862\, U.S. Attorney General Edward Bates observed that citizenship was “now as little understood in its details and elements\, and the question as open to argument and speculative criticism as it was at the founding of the Government.” \nBlack people suffered under this ambiguity\, but also seized on it in efforts to transform their nominal freedom. By claiming that they were citizens in their demands for specific rights\, they were\, the author argues\, at the center of creating the very meaning of American citizenship. In the decades before and after Bates’ lament\, free African Americans used newspapers\, public gatherings\, and conventions to make arguments about who could be a citizen\, the protections citizenship entailed\, and the obligations it imposed. Thus\, they played a vital role in the long\, fraught process of determining who belonged in the nation and the terms of that belonging. \nRemaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship (UPenn Press\, 2020)\, chronicles the various ways African Americans from a wide range of social positions throughout the North attempted to give meaning to American citizenship over the course of the nineteenth century. Examining newspapers\, state and national conventions\, public protest meetings\, legal cases\, and fugitive slave rescues\, Bonner uncovers a spirited debate about rights and belonging among African Americans\, the stakes of which could determine their place in U.S. society and shape the terms of citizenship for all Americans. \nAbout the Author\nChristopher Bonner teaches African American history at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Professor Bonner teaches courses covering African American politics and culture\, slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world\, the transformations of the United States during the nineteenth century\, and race and ethnicity in early America. Originally from Chesapeake\, VA\, he earned his B.A. from Howard University and Ph.D. from Yale. \nOther work by Professor Bonner appears in digital form at Muster\, the blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era and at Black Perspectives\, the blog for the African American Intellectual History Society. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
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