In 2014, the CUNY Graduate Center organized an academic conference on the Abolitionist Movement. Some of the top scholars in the field particpated.
The first video is the welcome by the president of CUNY Grad Center and the Keynote by David Blight of Yale. Blight, as you may know, has been the central figure in the academic study of how the Civil War is remembered. Nearly every Civil War memory study acknowledges his book Race and Reunion.
John Stauffer from Harvard gave some opening thoughts on historiography.
Chris Brown from Columbia moderates the first session on abolition in the colonial and Revolutionary eras.
Amy Dru Stanley of the University of Chicago moderated this session on Pre-Civil War Abolitionist strategies.
The next panel focuses on the political crisis of the 1850s. This is a heavy hitter panel:
Here are Eric Foner and Sean Wilentz:
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