Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick Douglass

Walls, South Carolina Representative Joseph H. Richard Allen, Mississippi Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, Frederick Douglass, Florida Representative Josiah T. Turner, African Methodist Episcopal Church founding bishop Rev. Along the top are portraits of Alabama Representative Benjamin S. Hand-colored lithograph by American engraver Gaylord Watson (1833–1896). For more information, contact Michael Banach at Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality 'From the Plantation to the Senate” (detail), 1883. The event is free and open to the public. From 2000 to 2013, he was the editor of the Brooklyn Rail. Hamm writes about criminal justice and New York City politics for a number of publications, including the Village Voice, In Justice Today, The Daily Beast and City Limits. Hamm provides an introductory essay examining the intricate ties between Douglass and Brooklyn abolitionists, while brief chapter introductions and annotations fill in the remaining historical context.ĭr. To provide a frame of contextual reference, Dr. Whether discussing the politics of the Civil War or recounting his relationships with Abraham Lincoln and John Brown, Douglass’s towering voice sounds anything but dated. Most prominent are the speeches the abolitionist gave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Plymouth Church, and other leading Brooklyn institutions. Hamm compiled original source material to illustrate the complex relationship between Frederick Douglass and the city of Brooklyn.

“Ted’s book, with its emphasis on a great historical figure in a local setting, illustrates the importance of Douglass in a context that is geographically familiar, yet historically unknown to many Brooklyn residents.”įor this work, Dr. “This series is envisioned to highlight the scholarship of our faculty and showcase their contributions to the commonwealth of ideas,” said Michael Hanophy, Ph.D., interim executive dean at SJC Brooklyn.

Hamm will discuss his latest book, “Frederick Douglass In Brooklyn,” which was recently featured in The New York Times. Ted Hamm, Ph.D., associate professor of journalism and new media studies, will present the inaugural talk of the “Lectures for Our Next Century” series Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn by Frederick Douglass