Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess reading poems based on the narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box. Jess and Dr. Brenda Greene, Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature, will continue with a discussion and readings from excerpts of historical and contemporary poems and novels that represent the legacy of enslaved peoples in the United States.
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Representations of Enslaved Peoples in Literature presented by the Center for Black Literature
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10/26/2019 09:15 pm
10/26/2019 10:15 pm
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Representations of Enslaved Peoples in Literature presented by the Center for Black Literature
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess reading poems based on the narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box. Jess and Dr. Brenda Greene, Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature, will continue with a discussion and readings from excerpts of historical and contemporary poems and novels that represent the legacy of enslaved peoples in the United States.
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