Mon Nov 2 · 12pm
Public Research Talk: “For Children Who Care to Learn”: Caroline Dall, Self-Culture, and Patty Gray’s Journey to the Cotton Islands
Caroline Dall wrote her Patty Gray's Journey books to tell children the truth about slavery, the Civil War and their aftermath, convinced that resilience comes from hard knowledge. Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, a professor of religious studies, traces that conviction to Dall's Unitarian and Transcendentalist faith in self-culture, starting from the series' first volume, Patty Gray's Journey to the Cotton Islands.