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This multi award-winning work of history explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery.
Moderated by Kyera Singleton
Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, Last Seen is the riveting story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery. Don’t miss Judith Giesberg’s illustrated presentation and discussion with Princeton historian Tera W. Hunter about this “heartbreaking, and essential” book (Jill Lepore), “a vital work of recovery” (Ilyon Woo).
Before American settlers traveled west in the nineteenth century, they ventured south over the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that ran from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia. James Dodson’s illuminating and entertaining first-person history, The Road That Made America, restores this long-forgotten route to its rightful place in our national story.