Lafayette and Human Rights
- Location: 601 Second Street, Marietta, Ohio 45750 (View on Google Maps)
- Start Date: May 2, 2025
- End Date: May 2, 2025
- Start Time: 12:00 pm
- End Time: 1:00 pm
Alan Hoffman, president of The American Friends of Lafayette in Marietta, Washington, will give a May 2 presentation about the Marquis de La Fayette’s commitment to human rights as he helped the new United States in the American Revolution.
Hoffman’s presentation will start at noon and go to 1 p.m. at the Campus Martus Museum, 601 Second Street, Marieta, Ohio. The presentation is free.
Hoffman, who holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and practiced law for 50 years in Boston, is an avid reader of early American history. He became deeply interested in Lafayette in 2002 and then spent two years translating a first-hand account of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of American in 1824 to 1825. The account was written by Lafayette’s private secretary.
Lafayette saw the American Revolution as a cause important to all mankind. He used his prestige and influence to advocate for causes designed to expand and enhance human rights for the oppressed.
Meanwhile, the abolition of American slavery after the American Revolution engaged Lafayette most intensely and continuously from 1783 to his death in 1834.
For more information about Hoffman’s presentation and Lafayette, click here.
More: https://mariettamuseums.org/events/discovering-history-4/
