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October 11 is the International Day of the Girl! What was it like as a girl growing up at Morven? Join us on October 9 for a special virtual event featuring Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright, author of Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century, and the museum’s curatorial and research team.
The women who were raised, lived, and worked at Morven navigated shared markers of childhood - playing with one another and learning from their parents. However, their experiences differed depending on their race and station in the home. Cate, born into slavery at Morven, and Annis Stockton, daughter of Richard Stockton “The Duke,” grew up together, but faced very different day to day realities in nineteenth century America.
This program will examine what we know about different experiences of girlhood at Morven, and further explore representations of Black girlhood in literature. How can fictional characters expand our knowledge of Black girlhood in the nineteenth century and how did these same characters serve as an avenue for addressing larger issues and the movement for progress?
This is a virtual program offered via Zoom webinar. Pre-registration is required.
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About the Speaker
DR. NAZERA SADIQ WRIGHT is Associate Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2016), which won the 2018 Children’s Literature Association’s Honor Book Award for Outstanding Book of Literary Criticism. In 2019, she was elected to the American Antiquarian Society. Fellowships through the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the American Philosophical Society funded research for her second book, Early African American Women Writers and Their Libraries.
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