February 2013 Speaker Profile

Brandywine Civil War Roundtable

Come to our Next Meeting!

February 6, 2013

Speaker:	Christopher Densmore
Topic:	Emancipation and the Pennsylvania Quakers
Time:	7:00 PM
Place:	West Chester Borough Hall, Gay Street

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