Adams Lecture: The Abolitionist Movement and Its Place in History

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Salem Athenæum announces John Stauffer as our Adams Lecturer this Fall.

The recent film, Lincoln, highlighted the bold and radical move made by President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves in the midst of a seemingly endless Civil War. Did Boston play a role?
 
Stauffer thinks so. A leading authority on antislavery, social protest movements, and interracial friendship, Stauffer chairs Harvard University's History of American Civilization program. During his research into the shaping of the Proclamation, the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, Stauffer uncovered an important contribution made by three different Bostonians who came together around the common cause of allowing blacks to serve in the Union Army. Join us and learn more about this pivotal moment in American history.

$25, members; $30, non-members
Students with ID, $5.
Details and tickets:
http://www.salemathenaeum.net/events.html or 978.744.2540