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Meet the Author: Richard Bell

A True Story about Smuggled Slaves in the Deep South

2022-02-22 19:00:00 2022-02-22 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet the Author: Richard Bell Author of "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home" - a finalist for both the 2020 George Washington Prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Tuesday, February 22
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-02-22 19:00:00 2022-02-22 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet the Author: Richard Bell Author of "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home" - a finalist for both the 2020 George Washington Prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

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Author of "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home" - a finalist for both the 2020 George Washington Prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize.

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February is Black History Month.

Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.

Their ordeal - an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still - shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers, and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.

Presenter: Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the new book "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home" which was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress, and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, as an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.”

 

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AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | History | Author Talk |

TAGS: | #blackhistorymonth |

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