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Washington Remembered, Washington Forgotten: Washington and Slavery
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Cambridge Public Library Main Lecture Hall, and livestreaming (hybrid event)Dates & Times
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To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series. All events take place at the Cambridge Public Library, and will also be livestreamed.
Explore how Americans have remembered and forgotten Washington’s involvement with slavery over the past 250 years, featuring:
- Kelli Racine Barnes, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Independence National Historical Park
- John Garrison Marks, author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (forthcoming) and Vice President of Research and Engagement at the American Association for State and Local History
- Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tufts University Center for the Humanities
This speaker series is made possible through the generous support of America's National Parks, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. It is presented in partnership by the National Park Service/Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, History Cambridge, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Historical Commission, and Cambridge MA250.
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