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Investigating Slavery & Freedom in Essex County
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 42.522549, -70.891954
Salem Armory Regional Visitor Center (2 New Liberty Street, Salem)
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Join the National Park Service and local historians to explore the lives of Sabe and Rose - two enslaved and later free people who lived and labored in Salem at the turn of the 19th century.
What do their stories tell us about slavery, freedom, racism, and activism in Essex County? How do they help us understand the gradual process of emancipation in Massachusetts? What is the National Park Service doing to share this history?
This program includes speaker presentations, Q&A, and a chance for participants to practice "doing history" themselves by analyzing primary source documents alongside historians.
See also: Join us to trace the footsteps of Sabe and Rose through downtown Salem on Friday, 9/22. See Walking Tour: Slavery & Freedom in Salem.
Speakers
- Dr. Kabria Baumgartner - Dean's Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Northeastern University. Author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America (NYU Press, 2019).
- Dr. Bethany Jay - Professor of History, Salem State University. Co-editor of Understanding and Teaching American Slavery (UW Press, 2016).
- Maryann Zujewski - Education Program Manager for National Park Service Interior Region 1.
Reservation or Registration: No
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NPS Photo / SAMA 3933