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Sarah Gronningsater, in conversation with Jane Manners, presents her book "The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom." Registration requested.
About the book (from the author's faculty profile):
"The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom," published in July 2024 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, explores the long and legally-oriented transition from slavery to freedom in New York from the first widespread Quaker emancipations in the 1750s to the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments at the close of the Civil War. The book is particularly concerned with the lives, politics, and legal efforts of the “children of gradual abolition”—the generation of black children born into quasi-freedom in the years after the American Revolution. In a broad sense, this generation helped shape important changes to the U.S. Constitution as well as groundbreaking federal civil rights legislation. The book highlights historical actors who strengthened American democracy during the formative early decades of the nation and its rebirth after the Civil War.
In conversation:
Sarah Gronningsater is assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. As a historian of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States, she has particular interests in slavery and abolition, and in the history of American democracy. She works at the intersections of legal, political, constitutional, and social history. She received an A.B. from Harvard University, an M.St. from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Jane Manners, assistant professor at Temple University's Temple Beasley School of Law, is a legal historian who teaches Torts, Legislation, and American legal history. She has written on the development of congressional petitioning, early American understandings of the president’s war powers, and the evolution of laws governing officer removal. Manners’s articles have appeared in the Fordham Law Review and the Columbia Law Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation, among other publications.
Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Humanities | Civic Life | Author Talks | *Registration Requested |
