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Abolition and American Culture
Alexis de Tocqueville Lecture on American Politics
Harvard University
March 10, 2010
by
Andrew Delbanco
Levi Profess or in the Humanities, Columbia University
Commentary by
John Stauffer
Professor of English and of
African American Studies
Harvard University
Manisha Sinha
Associate Professor of
Afro-American Studies
University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Wilfred McClay
SunTrust Bank Chair of
Excellence in Humanities at the
University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga
Darryl Pinckney
Novelist, Essayist,
and Critic
Event Details
4:00pm–6:00pm Lecture
7:00-9:30pm Commentary and Rejoinder
Location
Tsai Auditorium (S-010)
Concourse Level 1737
Cambridge Street. Cambridge, MA 02138
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