Susan Eva O’Donovan talk about Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans

Our guest on Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. is historian Susan Eva O’Donovan. She brings to us a magisterial, groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them—and their hard-won political knowledge—rightly at the center of the fight for freedom. The book is titled Moving Toward Freedom: The Political Education of Enslaved Americans. Join us for her talk and gain new understanding about how those enslaved in our country in the mid-nineteenth century moved toward full emancipation and citizenship. It’ll be a great program.