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The Auburn Avenue Research Library in collaboration with Morehouse College, the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Department and 44th & 3rd Bookseller presents Dr. Frederick C. Knight and his book Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom. In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal role of elders in the history of African American community formation through Reconstruction.
Frederick Knight is professor of history at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom (2024) and Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 (2010).
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101 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA, United States, Georgia 30303