A talk examining the claim that today's right-wing evangelists are akin to the abolitionists of the 19th century will kick off the second annual David Brion Davis Lecture Series sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition and Yale University Press.

This year's series, titled "William Lloyd Garrison at 200: The Meanings and Legacies of American Abolitionism," commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.

James Brewer Stewart, the James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College, will present his talk, "Repoliticizing the Abolitionists in Our Age of Fundamentalist Politics," on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St. A reception will follow the talk, which is free and open to the public.

Stewart will reassess the political importance of religious activism and abolitionism on the breakup of political parties that led to the Civil War. He will also critically examine the claims of contemporary right-wing evangelical activists that the abolitionist movement provides them with powerful historical precedents and models.

Other lecturers in the series and their topics will be:

Feb. 13 -- Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "Putting Politics Back In: Rethinking the Problem of Political Abolitionism";

March 27 -- Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College, "William Lloyd Garrison and Emancipatory Feminism in 19th-Century America"; and

April 3 -- Richard J. Blackett, Vanderbilt University, "The Global Garrison: America's Premier Radical Abolitionist and the International Response."

The locations and times of these lectures will be announced at a later date.

The lecture series was established last year to honor David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and founder of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale and one of the world's leading scholars of slavery and abolition in an international context. Each year, the Gilder Lehrman Center and Yale Press will publish the lectures in book form.

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