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Frederick Douglass and The Beginnings of Pan-Africanism

Date: September 11, 2025

Time: 5:15–6:15 PM

Venue: AB 1079

Speaker: Prof. Jesse Olsavsky

 

Explore how African, Caribbean, and African American thinkers circulated ideas about Frederick Douglass—a runaway slave, antislavery activist, and statesman—and reinterpreted him as a founding figure of Pan-Africanism, a movement that became a guiding ideology for African decolonization.

 

Snacks & Drinks Provided.