Title: BLACK HISTORY MONTH | Book Presentation: “Beyond Emancipation: Maroon Freedoms in US Literature” by Professor Sean Gerrity

Date | Time: Thursday, February 26 | 11:30 a.m.

Location: Zoom (Passcode: 098429 | Webinar ID: 822 4184 0882)

Description: On behalf of President Daisy Cocco De Filippis, we invite you to join the book presentation of  “Beyond Emancipation: Maroon Freedoms in US Literature, 1850-1862” by English Professor Sean Gerrity. Gerrity will be in conversation with English Department Chair Jason Buchanan. As the publisher describes it, Gerrity’s tome “revisits classic works of nineteenth-century American literature, especially by Black writers, to uncover a hidden history of maroons – enslaved people who ran away but remained hidden in the South...While Beyond Emancipation focuses on texts produced during the brief period between the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Civil War, the book's range of reference and implications are broad, unsettling still dominant ideas and engaging pressing questions in literary criticism, history, geography, and Black studies.”