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“Anna Murray Douglass and the Freedom Fighting Collective” (panel discussion)

Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EASTERN

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

Participants:

    • Dr Hannah-Rose Murray (University of Suffolk)

    • Prof Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh)

    • Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (Great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass)

Description: In this fifth iteration of our Douglass Dialogues conversation about the Douglass family, Douglass descendant Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass, Co-Founder and President of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI)), Douglass family historian and writer, Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier (Professor of United States and Atlantic Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Dr Hannah-Rose Murray (University of Suffolk) will discuss facts and stories revealed through Bernier’s extensive research into the lives of the Douglass family, specifically Anna Murray Douglass, who was the central and unifying figure, an equal partner to her husband and their five extraordinary children.

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Bringing History to the Stage: A Conversation about "The Rescue Trial" and Remembering Rosetta Douglass and Lewis Hayden (conversation)