Library Company of Philadelphia, in partnership with 1838 Black Metropolis and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania present:
Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | February 20th-22nd, 2025
AAPHI Scholar Darby Witek to present on Friday, February 20th: Joining her in the session will be UD AAPHI Alumna Dr. Melissa Benbow Flowers.
Friday’s Agenda:
9 am at the American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street
Session 1: Black Arts and Letters. The Contributions of Women 9:00-10:30
Chair: Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania, author of Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture
Maria Ryan, Florida State University, “Sarah Sanders’ Piano: Music in the Lives of the Women of the Stevens-Cogdell-Sanders-Venning Collection”
Melissa Flowers, University of Delaware, “Edmonia Lewis in Philadelphia: Black Travel and Networks of Affiliation”
Darby Witek, University of Delaware/American Antiquarian Society, “Copying that story of Mrs. H’s”: Reading Letitia Still, Caroline Anderson Still, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Black Philadelphia Women’s Work in Still’s Records
Nazera Sadiq Wright, University of Kentucky, “Frances E. W. Harper’s Library Card”