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Talk on 'World Black Philadelphia Made' Nov. 16 3:01 p.m., Nov. 15, 2006--Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, professor of history and curator of special collections at Haverford College, will speak on “The World Black Philadelphia Made: 1800-1870” at 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, in 127 Memorial Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. In the four generations after the American Revolution, Philadelphia African-Americans shaped a community that provided worldwide leadership in political, social, economic, religious and artistic circles. Using family histories and institutional stories from the 19th-century city, Lapsansky-Werner will explore relationships among such individuals as religious leader Richard Allen, painter Robert Douglass and feminist Sarah Mapps Douglass, in the context of organizations such as the Dorcas Society and the Banneker Institute. Lapsansky-Werner received her bachelor's degree in history and her doctorate in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied material culture, art and architectural history and historical archaeology. She has worked at the Philadelphia Historical Commission and her dissertation was an architectural and demographic study of the early development of Philadelphia's South Street. She has lectured and published on various aspects of Pennsylvania and Quaker history. She recently published Quaker Aesthetics (with Ann Verplanck) and an edited volume of the letters of Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Coates, (with Margaret Hope Bacon and others). She was a contributor to Lapsansky-Werner has taught history at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Temple universities and the Moore College of Art. She is a member of the Lansdowne Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. The talk is co-sponsored by the departments of English, art history, history, the Black American Studies Program, the Center for Material Culture Studies and UD Library. For more information, call (302) 831-2361.
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