Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk

Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk: Marlene Daut’s “Awakening the Ashes” and Sera E. Johnson’s “Encyclopédie noire”

Join Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition in celebrating French Caribbean scholarship and the two co-winners of 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize (FDBP): Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press) and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press).