Dr Luis Paterson
Wednesday 26 April 12-1pm – Elsie Locke 611
Abstract: William Lloyd Garrison is a character who looms large in the history of American abolitionism and the Civil War. In his landmark periodical the Liberator Garrison denounced the prevaricating, ineffective, and often insidious gradual means of abolition such as colonizing manumitted slaves and free blacks alike to Liberia. Instead, Garrison firmly and unequivocally devoted himself to the cause of immediate abolition. This seminar is a brief look at my close biographical analysis of Garrison’s early life and self-construction with the aim of exploring the origins of American immediatism and how Garrison came to embody the moral exemplar for the nation.
Dr. Luis Paterson is an Americanist by trade and his research focuses on slavery, abolition, reform, and self-construction in the United States. Delineating the role of the radical reformer in America is one of Paterson’s research focuses. When he is not engaged in history, Paterson moonlights as a music producer.
