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The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
On April 28, 2015 in the Rubenstein Leadership Hall in the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Nicholas Wood, a member of the Library’s 2014-2015 class of fellows, will discuss the results of his research topic, "The Washington Image in the Abolitionist Mind."
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Nicholas Wood
Wood received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and has received a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. His current research examines Americans who believed that the War for Independence established a sacred covenant mandating emancipation in return for Providential aid. He is preparing a book manuscript about the early national antislavery movement, from the Revolution into the 1830s.
Attendees should park in Mount Vernon visitor parking lots and enter the library campus via the pedestrian gate near the 4-way stop.