http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/thl-administration/lab-blog/berkeley-books-philadelphia-stories-americas-literature-race-and-freedom http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/thl-administration/lab-blog/berkeley-books-philadelphia-stories-americas-literature-race-and-freedom#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:19:04 +0000 Public Affairs http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=2639 Antebellum Philadelphia, at the border between North and South, was home to a large and influential "free" African American community, and was viewed as a laboratory in which the possibilities of a future without slavery could be tested. The Townsend Center's Humanities Lab this month features Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter, professor of English at Berkeley.]]> http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/thl-administration/lab-blog/berkeley-books-philadelphia-stories-americas-literature-race-and-freedom/feed/ 0