Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman with Professor Bryan Sinche

Frederick Douglass was a writer, an editor, an activist, a government minister, and the de facto spokesman for nineteenth-century Black America. In this lecture, Bryan Sinche will highlight Douglass’s achievements as a pre-Civil War author and abolitionist, explain his importance as a Civil Rights leader in the postwar period, and reflect on Douglass’s enduring legacy.

Bryan Sinche is Professor and Chair of English and Modern Languages at the University of Hartford. He is a scholar of nineteenth-century African American literature and, most recently, the author of , which was published by the University of North Carolina Press and was a finalist for the 2024 Book Prize presented by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

Host or Publisher Torrington Historical Society