Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Alan Taylor will present, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in the Early Republic,” drawn from his riveting narrative that explores events that set the nation on a new and dangerous course, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m., in Williams Center Room S204.
An expert on Colonial America and the early U.S. republic, Dr. Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair at the University of Virginia’s Corcoran Department of History, will base his talk on “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832,” which earned the author his second Pulitzer Prize.
The book tells the story of about 3,000 enslaved Africans from the Chesapeake region who escaped slavery by fleeing to the British and helping them to wage war on the United States during the War of 1812. It was also a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
The talk is free and open to the public, sponsored by the Graebner-Bennet History Department Cultural Fund of the Fredonia College Foundation.
