Announcing an upcoming academic seminar to be held at the American Antiquarian
Society in Worcester, MA. On Monday, November 23, at 4:30 PM, Lloyd Pratt, an
assistant professor of English at Michigan State University and a current
AAS-NEH Long-term Fellow, will be giving a talk titled:

THE ANATOMY OF A STRANGER: SLAVERY AND THE BIBLE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Prof. Pratt has provided the following précis of his talk:

This paper asks how our ideas of the "modern," the "stranger," and the
relationship between these two change when considered in the context of
nineteenth-century debates over the Bible's position on slavery. Those
nineteenth-century debates often turned on the question of who should count as
a stranger. They also asked whether the Bible endorsed the enslavement of
strangers or demanded hospitality to them. In addition to refining our sense of
the meaning of the stranger in modernity, this context also illuminates the
fugitive slave narrative's repeated turns to the language of strangerhood.

The seminar will take place in the Elmarion Room at the Goddard-Daniels House,
located at 190 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA, 01609. Further details are
available on the AAS website, at www.americanantiquarian.org.


Paul J. Erickson
Director of Academic Programs
American Antiquarian Society
508-471-2158

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