Celeste-Marie Bernier
Professor of Black Studies in the English Department at the University of Edinburgh
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Anglican saintsNovels first published in serial formCensored booksNovels adapted into comics19th-century male writers19th-century American male writersAmerican novels adapted into films, American novels adapted into plays, American novels adapted into television showsAmerican male journalistsActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican lecturersDeaths from coronary thrombosisAmerican autobiographers19th-century American memoirists, People of the Six Years' WarUnderground Railroad peopleWriters from Baltimore19th-century American businesspeopleHistorySocial novels
Frederick Douglass
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the prominent abolitionist, who in 1845 told his story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
9 February 2018
Also featuring: Karen Salt, Nicholas Guyatt
History19th-century male writers19th-century American memoirists, People of the Six Years' WarAmerican male journalistsUnderground Railroad peopleAnglican saintsActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican lecturersDeaths from coronary thrombosisAmerican autobiographersWriters from Baltimore19th-century American male writers19th-century American businesspeopleUncle Tom's Cabin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', the bestselling American novel of the 19th century which has slavery as its central theme.
8 June 2006
Also featuring: Sarah Meer, Clive Webb