James Basker
President of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, editor of Black Writers of the Founding Era and expert on early African-American writings.
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May 22, 2024 • 53min
The Black Founders, America and the Claim of Equality
James Basker, scholar and editor of Black Writers of the Founding Era, guides a recovery of early Black political and literary voices. He traces petitions, poems, letters and legal claims. Short scenes cover Phyllis Wheatley, Prince Hall, Benjamin Banneker, Belinda’s reparations suit and mass petitions that pressed the Declaration’s claim of equality.
