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BRUNSWICK — The eloquence of Frederick Douglass’s words, his majestic presence, and his influence are the key discussion points of John Stauffer’s presentation about former slave Frederick Douglass at the Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Civil War Roundtable, at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St.
The presentation is free and open to the public.
The talk also highlights Douglass’s prominence and significance in the Civil War era. Not only was he one of the nation’s most popular nonfiction writers, orators, and abolitionists, but he also became a friend and advisor to Lincoln and every subsequent president until his death in 1895. One indication of his significance is that he was the most photographed American in the 19th century.
Stauffer is an English professor, specializing in African and African American Studies, at Harvard University. He is curating an exhibition on Douglass for the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., scheduled to open in June 2023, and he is finishing a book on the U.S. Senator, abolitionist and civil rights leader Charles Sumner.
