Freedom’s Journal’s “Love Ditties” and Other Writings of Courtship and Marriage in Early African America

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Image of Frances Smith Foster speaking to crowd and gesturing. She wears a black shirt and a medal around her neck.

Photo: Mike Lovett

2008 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Frances Smith Foster Charles Howard Candler Professor of English & Women’s Studies; Associated Faculty in African American Studies and in American Studies, Emory University This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities.