David Blight will participate in a conversation with Edna Greene Medford and moderator, Harold Holzer, about Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Emancipation. The conversation will take place at the New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024 on Saturday, January 11 from 9:30am to 11:00am.
Program Description: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln each contributed mightily to the cause of black freedom in Civil War-era America—though these gifted writers, orators, and leaders took markedly different paths to the same end. Their remarkable journey—both in conflict and in tandem—represents one of the great American stories, a case in which activism and hard politics collide and collude to achieve historic goals. Experts discuss the revolutionary and evolutionary nature of the Douglass-Lincoln relationship
For more information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/frederick-douglass-abraham-lincoln-and-emancipation