Brandywine Civil War Roundtable
Come to our Next Meeting!
February 6, 2013
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Speaker:
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Christopher Densmore
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Topic:
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Emancipation and the Pennsylvania
Quakers
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Time:
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7:00 PM
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Place:
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West Chester Borough Hall, Gay
Street
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Our speaker for this month is Christopher
Densmore. He will be discussing the Emancipation
Proclamation and Quakers. Mr. Densmore has
held the position of Curator at the Swarthmore College Friends Library, a position
he has held for over 12 years. Previously
he was the University Archivist at the State University of New York at Buffalo for
27 years. He received a BA in History from
Oberlin College and Masters in History
from the University of Wisconsin-Madision. He is also a member of the board of Chadd’s Ford
Historical Society, the Friends Library and the Philadelphia Area Consortium of
Special Collections Libraries.
Mr. Densmore is the author of Red
Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1999), co-author of
Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of the New York Yearly Meetings
(Syracuse, 1995), author of introduction to the new edition to Robert C.
Smedley’s History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring
Counties of Pennsylvania (Stackpole Books, 2005), and of fifty other
publications including articles in Quaker History, New York History, Quaker
Studies, American National Biography and other publications.
In addition Mr. Densmore has done recent presentations
on the following topics:
“Early Woman’s Rights in Chester
County,” Hadley Foundation, Unionville, PA, February 27, 2012; “Short History
of Quakers in Pennsylvania,” Winterthur Museum, Delaware, June 2, 2011;
“Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, Slavery and the Chester County Quakers, Hadley
Memorial Lecture, Unionville, PA, January 15, 2010; Across Regions, Across
Religion, Across Race: Quakers, African-Americans and the Underground
Railroad,” Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference, Cambridge, MD, June
5, 2010
