Roundtable discussion on American Antislavery Writings
by Christopher Brown
On December 2, 2014, four scholars joined Gilder Lehrman president and Barnard College professor James G. Basker for a roundtable discussion on American antislavery writings. The panel included Elizabeth Alexander (Yale), Christopher Brown (Columbia), Eric Foner (Columbia), and Martha Hodes (NYU). The discussion concluded Professor Basker’s fall semester online graduate course, Amazing Grace: How Writers Helped End Slavery, offered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.