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“The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution - Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time” (panel discussion) 

Time: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EASTERN

Location: ONLINE (link available on our website closer to the event)

Participants:

    • Prof August H. Nimtz 

    • Prof Kyle A. Edwards

    • Prof Jack Kaufman-McKivigan (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)

Description: This conversation brings together leading scholars to explore how Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass understood and responded to the American Civil War in real time. Drawing on their book The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time (Brill, 2024), Professors August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards join Professor Jack Kaufman-McKivigan, editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers, for a thought-provoking dialogue on political philosophy, revolutionary change and the global significance of Douglass’s voice.

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