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Stages of Freedom and the Redwood Library & Athenaeum Present a Benefit Lecture and Reception: Frederick Douglass and What He Continues to Teach Us with Dr. David Blight

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$100 – Lecture, Reception and Complimentary New One-Year Redwood Library & Athenaeum Membership

 

$40 – Lecture and Reception

 

Proceeds Benefit Stages of Freedom’s Swim Empowerment Program for Rhode Island Black Youth.

 

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Dr. David Blight is author of the award-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (soon to be a major motion picture). He’s America’s foremost Douglass scholar, and the Sterling Professor of History, African American Studies, and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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