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George Washington Book Prize Lecture
September 18, 2008
The sanctuary at Bethel A.M.E. Church was filled to the rafters for the 2008 George Washington Book Prize Lecture. Marcus Rediker, chair of University of Pittsburgh's history department and winner of the $50,000 award for his book, The Slave Ship: A Human History, delivered as much performance as lecture: With Chestertown vocalist Karen Somerville, pianist Stef Scaggiari and bass player Tom Anthony, he made palpable the horror and grief of "The Floating Dungeon," as his lecture was titled, the vessels that carried an estimated 12.4 million desperately unwilling Africans across the Middle Passage of the Atlantic to help build the new America.
Click to enlarge photos by Alisha DiGiandomenico '10.
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House, arrives on his bicycle.
American Scholar Editor Robert Wilson talks with Steve Ross and Andrea Anderson of the National Endowment for the Humanities on the way to Bethel A.M.E. Church in the College van.
Dr. Rediker and Gillian Bourassa '09.
Dr. Rediker and the Starr Center's new Patrick Henry Fellow, Henry Wiencek.
Washington College President Baird Tipson welcomes guests to the event.
Adam Goodheart introduces Dr. Rediker.
Dr. Rediker.
Karen Somerville.
Dr. Rediker with musicians.
Stefan Scaggiari, keyboard; Tom Anthony, bass.
Dr. Rediker with Rev. Robert Brown, Jr., pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church, and Margaret Nuttle Melcher '69.
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