The social, cultural, and spiritual movement we remember as New England Transcendentalism was a complex phenomenon. Commonly associated with the individualism of Walden, it had also a powerful social and political aspect exemplified by Thoreau himself and by the too-little-known crusading daughters of Concord and Boston. Please join Distinguished Professor Sandra Petrulionis, author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, in this timely discussion of the New England activists who fought for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery HERE.
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Earlier Event: August 10
What's Her Name: All About Eve
Later Event: August 12
Picturing Frederick Douglass, Revisited