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Sojourner and Frederick Part 1
Nell Irvin Painter discusses her new book, Sojourner Truth — a Life, a Symbol.
John Sekora discusses his new book, Frederick Douglass. [unpublished?]
Afro-American History
Benjamin Quarles talks about the challenges in 1980 of locating primary resources in his area of scholarship–antislavery movements and the roles of African Americans in the American Revolution and the Civil War. Quarles also comments on the accounts, which were rare, of the contributions of African Americans to early epochs of American history, and the equally rare number of positive fictional portrayals of blacks in early American writing.
At the time of this interview, Quarles was retired professor of history at Morgan State College.
Kent Mullikin, deputy director of the National Humanities Center, participated in this conversation.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.