Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

134. Documenting Black Philadelphia

10:15–11:30 a.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography

Presiding: Siobhan Senier, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

1. “Safe Harbor: Philadelphia in the Eyes of Olaudah Equiano,” Roland Williams, Temple Univ.

2. “Documentary Activism: William Still, the Underground Railroad, and Black Philadelphia,” John Ernest, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown

3. “Black Philadelphia in The Christian Recorder,” Eric Scott Gardner, Saginaw Valley State Univ.

Respondent: Todd Vogel, Univ. of Washington, Bothell

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