Leesa Payton Jones, the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum in Washington, North Carolina, will share how enslaved people in eastern North Carolina used common items including plants, nursery rhymes, songs, clothing, and dance to convey messages to abolitionists, ship captains, and others in obtaining their freedom. Together we will […]
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Join us as Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman, Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, overturns the reclusive heiress’ assumptions about her family history to reveal that her […]
David Mills will read from, and reflect upon, the research behind his recent poetry collection, Boneyarn, the first-ever book of poems about slavery in New York City. The city holds the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States—the African Burial Ground—which was open from 1712 to 1795 and is located in Wall Street’s […]
