{"id":9966,"date":"2022-09-25T07:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/ann-plato-of-hartford-pioneering-black-writer\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T22:14:04","slug":"ann-plato-of-hartford-pioneering-black-writer","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/ann-plato-of-hartford-pioneering-black-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Plato of Hartford: Pioneering Black Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u><b>Stranger in a Strange Land: &nbsp;Ann Plato\u2019s Strategy for Autonomy as Evidenced in Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry<\/b><br \/><u><\/u><br \/><u><\/u><br \/><u><\/u><br \/><u><\/u>Join Antoinette Brim-Bell for a fascinating discussion about Ann Plato, who in 1841 became the fist African American writer to publish a collection of essays. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When scrutinized through a white canonical literary lens or juxtaposed with accepted African American authors, her work is generally criticized for being derivative and of \u201clittle literary merit,\u201d rendering Plato a footnote in history. This presentation will explore Ann Plato\u2019s literature against this assessment, situating the publication of essays as a treatise that strategically optimizes the author\u2019s opportunity for social and physical mobility.   <\/p>\n<p>This Hartford History Series event is produced in collaboration with Capital Community College.<br \/> <u><\/u><u><\/u><br \/><u><\/u><br \/><u><\/u><br \/><u><\/u>Please register here:&nbsp;<u><\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2022HHS?fbclid=IwAR0PFJ4pISPg91ADqas9zU4YCPL9sF-3kNzBlus4KpTOOh_ifkuUv_i-4Eg\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2022HHS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stranger in a Strange Land: &nbsp;Ann Plato\u2019s Strategy for Autonomy as Evidenced in Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and PoetryJoin Antoinette Brim-Bell for a fascinating discussion about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-9966","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Connecticut&#039;s Old State House","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}