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Revolutionary Liberators: Remembering the Douglass Family 1813-1960
This talk shares the revolutionary worlds and revolutionary works of Anna Murray Douglass and Frederick Douglass and their children, Rosetta Douglass Sprague, Lewis Henry Douglass, Frederick Douglass, Jr., Charles Remond Douglass, and Annie Douglass, and their grandchildren and descendants fighting on all “freedom’s battlegrounds” over the centuries. They transformed U.S. history by living and laboring as revolutionary liberators, Underground Railroad freedom-fighters, educators, journalists, newspaper editors, authors, essayists, orators, antislavery agitators, community organizers, family builders, historians, foodways specialists, business owners, political protesters, human rights philosophers, government workers, labor union founders, and civil rights leaders. Struggling, sacrificing, and surviving together, they were “able to suffer and be strong.” They lived their lives as a “united power” and by their rallying call to arms, “Why not we endure hardship that our race may be free?”
Date:
22 January 2026, 16:45
Venue:
Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details:
Downstairs Seminar Room, Rothermere American Institute
Speaker:
Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh)
Organisers:
Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford),
Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Part of:
American Literature Research Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Katy Terry
