Experience Rochester

Presented by the
University of Rochester Alumni Board

featuring
Steven Hahn ’73
History Professor, New York University
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

and moderated by
Larry E. Hudson
Associate Professor of History, University of Rochester

Thursday, February 11, 2021
Noon - 1:00 p.m. (ET)
Virtual

Steven Hahn ’73, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and professor at New York University, will lead this compelling discussion about slavery, emancipation, and today’s Black Lives Matter and global racial justice movement. Hahn will expound on his decades of research, his most interesting findings, and the 19th century roots of Black political activity and Black nationalism. He will also share first-hand stories about slaves, their early days of freedom, and their economic plight after the Civil War while relating these stories and experiences to contemporary times. Professor Larry Hudson will moderate a conversation with Professor Hahn following his talk.

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Speaker bios:

Steven Hahn ’73
Steven Hahn is a specialist on the international history of slavery, emancipation, and race. He is also an expert on the construction of American empire and the social and political history of 19th century in the United States. Hahn is the author of four award-winning books, including A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration for which he earned a Pulitzer Prize. He is also the co-author and co-editor of two books and has written articles and essays for The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, and other major publications. Hahn is currently completing a textbook called Struggling for America and is working on a book tentatively entitled The Illiberal Tradition in America. For many years, he has been actively involved in projects focused on making history and liberal arts education available to a wider public. He also teaches in NYU’s Prison Education Program. Hahn earned his bachelor’s in history from the University of Rochester and his PhD from Yale University.

Larry E. Hudson
Larry Hudson is an associate professor of history at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on slavery in the early 19th century. Hudson is currently examining the enslaved as patient, hardworking subversives who were able to shape their world as they prepared themselves for freedom. Hudson is particularly interested in their family life, work environment, and religious and health practices, all of which provided them with the cultural tools to ensure more than mere survival of a system of human exploitation. Hudson is also an accomplished writer and editor. He wrote “To Have and to Hold”: Slave Work and Family Life Antebellum South Carolina; served as an editor for Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South; and has published numerous articles and papers. Hudson earned his PhD from Keele University in the United Kingdom.

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