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9:32 a.m., Oct. 20, 2009----Carole Marks, professor of sociology at the University of Delaware, will discuss her new book Moses, the Monster and Miss Anne at the annual lecture of the Delaware Humanities Forum at 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26, in Theatre N at Nemours, 1007 N. Orange St., Wilmington.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and is the forum's final event in the year-long anniversary with the theme “Picturing Delaware: Inside and Outside the Frame.”
The forum invited Marks to discuss three ordinary women with extraordinary stories from the 19th century Delmarva Peninsula - Harriett Tubman, Patty Cannon and Anna Ella Carroll.
Tubman, the famed rescuer of slaves, is the Moses of the book's title, while Cannon, a ruthless thief and murderer who kidnapped free blacks and returned them to slavery, is the monster. Carroll is Miss Anne, whose feminist legacy as a suffragist was clouded by her pro-slavery stance.
"DHF is thrilled to be working with Dr. Marks for our anniversary finale," says Marilyn Whittington, executive director of the forum. "All year, we have turned the humanities focus on things that Delawareans value -- its material culture, portraiture and architecture, its industrial past, its traditions and its landscapes. And while the stories of Tubman and Cannon are well known to Delawareans, we wanted to shake things up a bit. Our annual lecture will focus on the story of three 'dangerous' women and expose myths and exaggerations that, while colorful, take away from the truly amazing imprint they, collectively, left on the Delmarva Peninsula."
Marks joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 1987 and before that held research positions at Duke and Harvard universities and teaching positions at St. Lawrence University, Brown University and Williams College. She is the author of several books: Farewell, We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration; The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance; and, A History of African Americans in Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore. She has also penned numerous articles on migration and the urban underclass.