Thursday,
March 16, 2017
7:00
p.m.
"The Matter of Black Lives:
Writing the
Biography of
Frederick
Douglass
and His
Family"
by Ezra Greenspan
What is family? How does it lend
itself to the
writing of
biography? What
particular
challenges does
the writing of
family biography
present when the
family is
African American? These are some of the core
questions that
underlie this
talk, which
explores the
life stories
of various
members of the
Bailey-Douglass
family.