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Film, Video Founders & Their Slaves: 2018 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Founders & Their Slaves: 2018 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Erica Armstrong Dunbar presents "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" and Catherine Kerrison presents "Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2018-09-01.

Headings

  • -  Literature
  • -  National Book Festival, literature, non-fiction

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Catherine Kerrison.
  • -  Recorded on 2018-09-01.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black Studies and History at the University of Delaware. In 2011, she was appointed the first director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Dunbar has been the recipient of Ford, Mellon and Social Science research Council fellowships and is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Her first book, "A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City," was published by Yale University Press in 2008. Her new work, a National Book Award finalist, is "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" (Atria).
  • -  Catherine Kerrison is an associate professor of history at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in colonial and revolutionary America and women's and gender history. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from the College of William and Mary. Her first book, "Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South" (Cornell), won the Outstanding Book Prize from the History of Education Society in 2007. She has recently written "Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America" (Ballantine).

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  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692318

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Founders & Their Slaves:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-01, 2018. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692318/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2018) Founders & Their Slaves:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-01. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692318/.

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Founders & Their Slaves:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-01, 2018. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692318/>.