Free for Members of the Women’s History Council

EVENT DETAILS

The new book Force and Freedom is the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. It examines one of the perennial questions in political thought: Is violence a valid means of producing social change? Historian Kellie Carter Jackson, assistant professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, addresses how black abolitionists answered this question. Black resistance and violent resistance to slavery was central to emancipation, and the phrase “freedom now” was never more urgent than in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Steven Hahn, professor of history at New York University, joins Dr. Jackson in conversation about this important new work.

Refreshments will be served. 

LOCATION

The Skylight Gallery at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

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Lead support for the Center for Women's History programs provided by
Joyce B. Cowin, Diane and Adam E. Max, Jean Margo Reid, 
and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.