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A Fool’s Errand? Reconstructing the Narrative of Freedom in North Carolina
On Tourgée’s life as lawyer, judge, public servant, and novelist in Reconstruction North Carolina, 1865-79. Moderator/panelist
Ann McColl, attorney and independent scholar, is legislative director for the North Carolina Board of Education. She is the creator of Constitutional Tales, a dramatic presentation that brings the Constitutional Convention of 1868 to life.
Panelists
Frank Woods, visiting assistant professor and former director of the African American Studies program at UNC Greensboro, is the great-grandson of Adaline Patillo Woods, the formerly enslaved adopted daughter of Albion and Emma Tourgée.
Carolyn Karcher, professor emerita at Temple University, has published a scholarly edition of Tourgée’s novel Bricks Without Straw (2009) and is at work on a book about Tourgée’s relations with African Americans in the 1890s.
Judge Robert N. Hunter Jr., serves on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He has lectured on Albion Tourgée for CLE credit for the NC Bar Association program on election law.