A special public program to support the Voices and Votes exhibition, this lecture will explore the poetry and public voices of two published Black poets of eighteenth-century America, Phillis Wheatley and Jupiter Hammon, highlighting their lives and work, politics, relationship to each other, and their legacies.
Scholar Lecture with Historian David Waldstreicher, PhD
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Cold Spring Harbor Library, 95 Harbor Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY and via Zoom
Cost: Free
David Waldstreicher is a historian of early and nineteenth-century America with particular interests in political history, cultural history, slavery and antislavery, and print culture. He is the author of The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journey American Slavery and Independence (2023); Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004); and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997).
“A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy” has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
